Berlin’s identity after the Wall was built. The Friends of the Egyptian Museum, which at the time had over 1,000 members, was, after all, a purely West Berlin club! And when I announced to them in our in-house
Kirchner and Pablo Picasso, right through to Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter. It holds works spanning 1,000 years of art, cultural and media history, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection
kilograms and cost several hundred thousand pounds, this suitcase-sized instrument, priced at around 1,000 pounds, was a sensation. From air to electronic sound: Lyricon At the 1979 ‘Ars Electronica’, Bruno
to do with minced meat or ball sports, but is a masterpiece of space efficiency: what stretches over 1.50 metres in length on a bassoon – the tube – has here been coiled into a spiral and packed inside a
juxtaposition of 21st-century Moroccan silk embroidery with Anni Albers’ Bauhaus textiles from 1927 and the 1,500-year-old Huari men’s shirt from Peru, a dialogue transcending time and space emerges concerning
for this project I’m only looking at acquisitions made between 1933 and 1945. That amounts to about 1,200 works. In the first phase of the project, that number was reduced still further. First, I checked
complicated provenance. The Museum für Asiatische Kunst has been closed to the public since January 1, 2017, while we get everything ready for the move to the Humboldt Forum. I have long been planning to [...] than 8,000 sheets has never been digitally recorded in its entirety, only in…
been possible a few years earlier. The second major project was the exhibition ‘Russians and Germans: 1,000 Years of Art, History and Culture’, which was shown in 2012 at the Historical Museum in Moscow and
begins with the digital cataloguing of our metadata – and we are currently in the process of converting 1 million index cards containing sheet music, books, libretti and sound recordings from the music department