The software magnate's second museum, which opens in September, will focus on art from the former German Democratic Republic.
in Potsdam in early 2017, the Museum Barberini, which instantly became a must-see art destination. With its 4,000-square-meter exhibition space, the Barberini is dedicated to Plattner’s Modern and Impressionist collection, and to his unmatched holdings of East German art created in the former German Democratic Republic and in the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall.Das Minsk
The new museum is itself a piece of East German history. Built in the 1970s in the modernist style of the GDR, the building once housed a popular restaurant by the same name . It offered an upscale dining experience with spectacular views from its large terrace and an international menu—a novelty for most residents of former East Germany at the time. It was hard to get a table.
On the building’s exterior, a yet-unrealized public work by nonagenarian artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, will be recreated from an original plan commissioned in East Germany but forgotten in the chaos of the early post-GDR years. Areas that used to be the kitchen and cloakroom have been converted into exhibition spaces totaling 900 square meters . The upper-level café, accessible without an exhibition ticket, will surely be approved by those who remember its previous incarnation.
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