The Ruine der Künste Berlin is a private space for material and immaterial arts. Opened in 1985, it is a project space initiated, built, funded and directed by media artist Wolf Kahlen ( > staff) For now 25 years, from 1985 to 2010, Wolf Kahlen has invited artists and interdisciplinary scientists to work and live, exhibit, show and lecture at the Ruine der Künste Berlin : initiating temporary, site-specific works and thoughts developed exclusively for the Ruine der Künste Berlin ( > manifesto 1985) The Ruine der Künste Berlin is a subtle architectural space, a conceptual sculpture, which Wolf Kahlen inserted into the splintered, perforated shell of a bombed out and burnt out building situated in west Berlin's Dahlem residential area. The facade itself was created by Russian gunshots in early 1945 and the building was left abandoned for nearly forty years, until Wolf Kahlen began constructing his space in 1981 and started inviting artists ( > artists) |
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