Portfolio Berlin

BerlinThe It Place for Artists. After the fall of the Wall, Berlin has seen an unparalleled rise as a metropolis of contemporary art. Twenty years later, the city has become a melting pot of the most diverse cultural influences and a hub of globally operating museums and art businesses, of galleries and artists. The earlier book Portfolio Berlin 01 focused on painting; this second edition shifts the attention toward sculpture and installation art. Portfolio Berlin 02 surveys seven important positions staked out by internationally renowned artists who live and work in Berlin: Monica Bonvicini, Bjoern Dahlem, Olafur Eliasson, Alicja Kwade, Via Lewandowsky, Bettina Pousttchi, and Michael Sailstorfer. It demonstrates that the selected artists bring a genrecrossing mind to the sculputural domain as well, displacing boundaries and vigorously breaking up traditional meanings and settled structures.