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Opening of the new Gallery at Potsdamer Straße

The gallery’s path has led from the legendary Amiga Studios on Brunnenstraße, where we just turned off the lights, to the former artists academy and current Camaro Foundation at Potsdamer Straße 98A – a gorgeous building, also close to a park, located behind two passageways next to the legendary Wintergarten Varieté.

The Association of Berlin Female Artists (VdBK) was founded in 1867 as the Association of Artists and Art Lovers of Berlin. In 1893, together with the women’s project Victoria-Lyceum, it moved to the brick building in the courtyard of Potsdamer Straße 98, which was number 39/39a back then. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz were amongst the many women who studied and taught at this academy for female artists.

Since the move in 1910, the building has had an eventful history. Many Berliners still remember the GdK, or Gallery of Arts, which operated in these spaces for many years before we arrived.

We’ve loosely set May 7th as the opening date for the new premises, which will be elaborately reconstructed between now and then. The gallery program will resume on 250 square meters of exhibition space, 80 square meters of administration space and 70 square meters of storage space.

The rooms are laid out very well and lend themselves readily to small events. The ambience around the gallery is wonderful and seems – with its round little bushes, fountains and marble grace – almost Italian.

Atelierhaus Potsdamer Straße 98A
Foto von Dieter Bühler

Ancient African art will be presented in an even larger area than previously – a 60-square-metre gallery used exclusively for that. Thematic exhibitions of contemporary art in the ground-level main hall will remain the primary attraction for the public and therefore receive spatial priority with a total of 190 square meters. For the first time, we will have a separate room for video presentations…

Articles:
Blog Focus 11
Hilker Berlin
Tagesspiegel

Films
YouTube Pata-Pata by Easy Goin
Kunstkontakter

>> See the overview of the exhibition >>

Photo: Friederike Schinagl

Dr. Uschi Eid and Peter Herrmann. A toast.