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Art Berlin Contemporary
Art Berlin Contemporary
Berlin, Germany
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Other Projects by Meyer-Grohbrügge
Art Berlin Contemporary
Berlin, Germany
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
The design for the Art Fair “Art Berlin Contemporary” is broadening the idea of the classical fair design. It answers the very different demands of an art fair with the most possible simplicity instead of the most possible variability. It is playing with the idea that you can create very different spacial situations with one single element.
The circular shaped reception desk is forming a plaza that welcomes the visitor and softening the transition between outside and inside.
After the entrance you enter an equal grid of rooms, 10x10m in size that are defined through one single element, the cross, that form the corners of the rooms.
In each corner one artist is represented. The galleries could choose the length and number of corners or if they want to curate a whole room by themselves.
In that way each room becomes unique and even if different galleries are represented they start to communicate with each other, forming an atmosphere.
We just gave the grid points and the rules. How the layout finally turned out was up to the feedback of the galleries. In that sense it is a quite flexible concept. It gives a strong spacial frame, but within there are many different possibilities for the galleries and artist to present their work.
Sometimes the rooms are clearly defined exhibition rooms, where the space between the crosses is read as a door and sometimes the space gets fluid, the crosses become objects, only marking the space like a column. The visitor goes from room to room and at the same time he feels the space as a whole.
The project was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award
The circular shaped reception desk is forming a plaza that welcomes the visitor and softening the transition between outside and inside.
After the entrance you enter an equal grid of rooms, 10x10m in size that are defined through one single element, the cross, that form the corners of the rooms.
In each corner one artist is represented. The galleries could choose the length and number of corners or if they want to curate a whole room by themselves.
In that way each room becomes unique and even if different galleries are represented they start to communicate with each other, forming an atmosphere.
We just gave the grid points and the rules. How the layout finally turned out was up to the feedback of the galleries. In that sense it is a quite flexible concept. It gives a strong spacial frame, but within there are many different possibilities for the galleries and artist to present their work.
Sometimes the rooms are clearly defined exhibition rooms, where the space between the crosses is read as a door and sometimes the space gets fluid, the crosses become objects, only marking the space like a column. The visitor goes from room to room and at the same time he feels the space as a whole.
The project was nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award
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