Live in Art

Picture rooms and storage areas create a different type of living space, which is not furnished in the usual way, but rather is atmospherically designed through art. This can be experienced in spacious rooms that maintain proximity to everyday life and yet allow distance to be gained from it. The project represents a different concept of time: instead of transporting works of art into private or public spaces, art can be inhabited here temporarily. Working, sleeping, eating, etc. function as usual thanks to the comfort of the rooms, but are experienced in a different way through the human-sized painting installations, photographic floor paintings, sculptures and miniatures. In this way, the traditional Berlin room with a window view of the green-walled courtyard is transformed into a multi-view space and, as you walk through, leads into the light-flooded “Berlin Room”. Here you literally enter the Berlin construction sites that have long since become historical and see the original wall painting series.

Recent object installations such as the scene of a “bamboo army” come into view in the hallway, which serves as an entrance to the varied ambience with its additional glass shelves and display cases. Following your own preferences, you can always look around and see what makes you want to explore further, or pursue perspectives you have discovered by chance. This applies in particular to small and tiny material figurations, whose natural transience and unpredictable transformations can be perceived. Without representative events, the objects are left to the observation of their temporary residents, who can participate in the different dimensions of artistic development up close.

In terms of exhibitions, the residence embodies an ensemble of viewing and thinking spaces that set in motion a variety of ways of receiving them. The encounters with works of art that take place in the rooms take place in the informal atmosphere of personal correspondence on trial. This way of dealing with things and the inspirations they inspire corresponds to a creative living in art with a locally traded “currency” of communicative participation.

Would you like to visit or stay?

Please contact Eva Koethen