Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art
The Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art is an exhibition space for contemporary art in the barn area in Berlin -Mitte. The art - works were established at the beginning of the 1990s by Klaus Biesenbach in the building of a former margarine factory in the August road along with fellow students.
Dan Graham's pavilion for the Café Bravo
The building is arranged around a courtyard, where a conceived by the artist Dan Graham Pavilion Café is located. This construction is carried out in a flush steel and glass structure and sets its geometric abstraction a modern touch in the otherwise dominated by old buildings courtyard of the area. The actual exhibition spaces are located on the rear side buildings and parts of the right wing. Since 1998 takes place in the art - works (but also elsewhere) with the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (BB). The first Biennale was curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Nancy Spector 1998. On the facade of the rear building installation Valerio II was 1998 for the first Berlin Biennale Carsten Höller attached: the chute leading from the floor to the courtyard and can be used by visitors.
Biesenbach later organized and parallel exhibitions of the MoMA PS1 in New York City and left the art - works in autumn 2004, to go as curator of media art to the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) in New York. One of the last curated exhibitions Biesenbach was the controversial RAF exhibition, which was opened in January 2005. 2006, a Fassbinder retrospective in KW, which came through the newly restored footage to wide resonance. Since January 2007, Susanne Pfeffer holds as a curator at the art - works of the artistic direction. Pepper was previously director of Künstlerhaus Bremen.Pfeffer was chosen by Rein Wolfs appointment as new director of the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn on April 12, 2013 by the Board of documenta and Museum Fridericianum Event GmbH to the new artistic director of the Museum Fridericianum.