Gleisdreieck 1978
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
Karina Raeck - Gary Rieveschl: Reste von Lokschuppenanlagen am Anhalter Güterbahnhof
1978 © Karina Raeck - Gary Rieveschl
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The historic premises of the former Anhalt freight station, where Berlin's technology museum is situated today, were once taken up by a landscape of coal stockpiles the 'iron reserve' of Berlin. Acquired by West Berlin from the Niederlausitz region after the blockade, and painfully constructed by East Berlin workers, this monument fell apart, unregarded and unused a process of erosion in a dialogue between structure and chaos.
These black and white photographs are the result of a joint documentary project by the two 'land artists' Karina Raeck (born in Berlin in 1938) and Gary Rieveschl (born in Cincinatti, Ohio, in 1943). Taken on walks through the historic scenery of old West Berlin, they confront the viewer with relics of a metropolis that has fallen apart, and show the city centre, divided by the Wall, in that period of stagnation truly resulting in an 'archaeology of the most recent past'.
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Artist(s)
Karina Raeck, Gary Rieveschl
Curator(s)
Gerhard Kemner
Duration of the exhibition
4.11.2008 - 1.03.2009
Opening times
Di-Fr 9-17.30 h; Sa, So, feiertags 10-18 h
Location
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
Trebbiner Str. 9
10963 Berlin
T 0049 30 902540
Public transport connections
U1, U7 Möckernbrücke;
U1, U2 Gleisdreieck;
S1, 2, 25 Anhalter Bahnhof
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