SPK Magazine issue on the Kulturforum
News from 06/30/2021
The "Temple and Barn" issue explores the ensemble of buildings for art, literature, music, and science and asks what they have to offer.
Berlin's cultural forum in the Tiergarten district, near Potsdamer Platz, is going to become livelier and acquire new qualities. That's the unanimous wish of the institutions located there, according to the latest issue of the SPK Magazine, which is devoted to the Kulturforum. Reports, interviews, background information, and discursive essays illuminate the subject from a variety of angles. As well as considering future developments, they uncover the neighborhood’s lost roots as a center of the art trade a century or more ago and describe how later, during the Cold War, the Neue Nationalgalerie, Philharmonie, and Staatsbibliothek were erected in direct opposition to the Berlin Wall as emblems of the freedom of art in the Western world. With the Wall gone, the place remained special, yet the vacant spaces took on a random series of very different guises. At last, the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century) is connecting the forum's isolated architectural monuments in a way that creates a meaningful urban structure.
The SPK Magazine is published by the Media, Communication and Events Department. It is produced in cooperation with the Res Publica publishing house and will be included with Monopol art magazine on July 1, and with some editions of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Tagesspiegel on July 3.