Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Henry Moore's sculpture, Large Divided Oval: Butterfly in front of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW

Visual Art and culture. It is one of the institutions which, due to their national and international standing and the quality of their work, receive funding from the federal government as so-called "lighthouses of culture", from the Federal Minister of State for Culture and the Media as well as from the Federal Foreign Office. As a venue and collaboration partner, HKW has hosted festivals such as the transmediale, curatorial platforms, biennials such as the Berlin Documentary Forum, and mentorship programs such as Forecast. Since 2013, its interdisciplinary elaboration on the Anthropocene discourse has included conferences, exhibitions, and other artistic formats performed together with philosophers, scientists, and arstists, such as Bruno Latour and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.[2]

Location and history

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt is located in the

conference hall, a gift from the United States, designed in 1957 by the American architect Hugh Stubbins as a part of the Interbau, an International Building Exhibition. U.S. President John F. Kennedy spoke here at a trade union meeting during his June 1963 visit to West Berlin. [3][4]
On May 21, 1980, the roof collapsed, killing one and injuring numerous people. The hall was rebuilt in its original style and reopened in 1987 in time for the 750-year anniversary of the founding of Berlin.

Henry Moore sculpture

Outside the entrance,

Akademie der Künste), Butterfly was initially a loan to (then West) Berlin in 1986, but the city council wanted the sculpture permanently, and asked Moore if he would donate it. The letter arrived just before his death and went unanswered. In 1988 it was sold by the Henry Moore Foundation to Berlin for 4.5 million Deutsche Mark (around $2.58 million at the exchange rate of the day), then a huge sum for a public sculpture. The sculpture was eventually badly damaged by a combination of environmental pollution and vandalism, and restored in 2010.[6]

In popular culture

On 2nd September 1970, the Kongresshalle was the setting for the West German heat of TV's Jeux Sans Frontières.

Typical of

Berlin's popular humor, Berliners have nicknamed the building Die schwangere Auster ("The pregnant Oyster") [7]
or "Jimmy Carter's smile".

In 2005 the building served as an outdoor set for the science fiction action film Æon Flux.

See also

Sources

  1. ^ Welt, Haus der Kulturen der (8 August 2019). "Haus der Kulturen der Welt: About us". HKW. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  2. ^ Welt, Haus der Kulturen der (9 July 2018). "The Anthropocene Project". HKW. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ISBN 978-0-521-85824-3
    , pp. 103, 105, 113, 130‒32.
  4. OCLC 306805323
    .
  5. ^ "Works in Public: Large Divided Oval: Butterfly 1985–86". The Henry Moore Foundation. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  6. ^ Martin Bailey (July 19, 2010), Henry Moore’s largest bronze restored in Berlin The Art Newspaper.
  7. ^ TZORTZIS, ANDREAS (20 September 2007). "Berlin's Pregnant Oyster Welcomes the Big Apple". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 June 2014.

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