Refurbishment work begins at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
Press release from 09/25/2019
Upgrading the air conditioning system makes it necessary to close the Kleihueshalle on 30 September 2019
The Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin will undergo extensive refurbishment work. The Kleihueshalle, where the exhibition "The Elephant in the Room - Sculptures from the Marx Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection" will be on display until 29 September 2019, will have to be closed for several months in order to upgrade the air conditioning system. All other rooms will of course remain open. "The Hamburger Bahnhof is one of the best-visited museums of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin with a highly successful programme. After more than 20 years, it is now time to renew the air-conditioning technology. This is being done with funds from the building maintenance programme," says Hermann Parzinger, President of the Foundation.
The director of Hamburger Bahnhof, Gabriele Knapstein, also called the upcoming renovation work essential: "I am delighted that we will be getting a new air conditioning system. Works from the Marx Collection will continue to be on display, so that despite the closure of the Kleihueshalle, the sophisticated, changing presentations of the collection at Hamburger Bahnhof are guaranteed."
From 9 November 2019, the exhibition "Time for Fragments" will once again bring together works from the Marx Collection and the Nationalgalerie. Based on a quote by the artist Marcel Duchamp, the exhibition explores the different meanings of the fragmentary through works by Joseph Beuys, Mariana Castillo Deball, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol and others. In a world whose unity and wholeness was being called into question by physics as well as by the disintegration of society, Duchamp saw the fragment as the only possible form of artistic action.