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Kunstgewerbemuseum

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The Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) is the oldest of its kind in Germany. It is home to world-famous examples of European craftwork and design from the Middle Ages to the present day. As early as 1966, Rolf Gutbrod, one of the leading architects of German post-war modernism, presented his first drawings for what he envisioned as a new “Museum Island in West Berlin” – a design which the jury deemed an “exploded hand grenade.” At the center of Gutbrod’s idea was an upward sloping square enclosed by a horseshoe to which the various museums were connected. The Berlin artist duo prjktr are taking this first design as a starting point for their video intervention in the stairway of the museum, presenting the building in the tension of the architectural and urban utopias of the 1960s.