Luisenforum/ Brandenburger Strasse 5
Tilman Wendland
Untitled, 2006
Cardboard, masonite, magazine copy,
varible dimensions
Courtesy of the artist & European Art Projects
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Archigram / Peter Cook
Plug-In City, Max. Pressure Area Section, 1964
Hand coloured print with added colour film, 84 x 176 cm
Archigram Archives Collection
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Victor Nieuwenhuijs & Maartje Seyferth
New Babylon de Constant, 2005
Video/ DVD, 13 min
Courtesy of the artists
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Matthias Müller
Vacancy, 1998
16 mm on DVD, colour, sound
Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
Photo: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
Rula Halawani
The Wall, 2005
6 channel video installation
Variable dimensions
Courtesy of the artist
Photos: Krzysztof Zieliński / European Art Projects
One thematic block concentrates on late modernist designs for the ideal city.
Tilman Wendland's sculptural installation refers to Chandigarh, Brasilia,
and Oskar Hansen's plans in Poland. Matthias Muller's film Vacancy,
dedicated to Brasilia, establishes an immediate dialogue with that work.
On view are also sketches and collages relating to Archigram's Plug-In City
and Victor Nieuwenhuijs' & Maartje Seyferth's film New Babylon de Constant.
The utopias of modernism are framed by two installations on the upper and
lower floors which concerns themselves with the political reality of a city.
Rula Halawani's multi-part projection shows everything but a 'heavenly Jerusalem',
much more a city divided and hermetically cordoned off which
by the construction of the security wall is only partly useable
and experienced by its residents. Tarek Al-Ghoussein' freely suspended
photo installation also alludes to the wall in Jerusalem, although the photos
of anonymous construction sites were made where he lives in Sharjah.
Further information on Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Archigram,
