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The Gropius Bau is one of the most important exhibition houses in Europe. With acclaimed contemporary and archaeological exhibitions, the Gropius Bau has repeatedly opened up new spaces of experience and established its international reputation.
Given the turbulent history and diverse institutions that have been active in the course of time, the Gropius Building is structured as an open framework for dealing with a variety of artistic ways of thinking and their social implications. Through active collaboration with contemporary artists in the program, creative processes are revealed, new perspectives are opened up and the possibilities of the institution are reflected.
The Gropius Bau stands for an attentive and differentiated examination of the history and present of the house. In 1881 the Gropius Bau was opened as a museum of applied arts. The designs were designed in accordance with the basic principles of the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and implemented by Martin Gropius in close cooperation with Heino Schmieden.
The Renaissance-style building became the site of various institutions and collections. In the years until 1945, the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstgewerbeschule, the Museum of Pre- and Early History, the East Asian Art Collection of the Ethnographic Museum and the Art Library used the premises. From 1986, the Gropius Bau temporary seat for the Berlinische Galerie, the Werkbund Archive - Museum of Things and the Jewish Department of the former Berlin Museum.
In 1945, the building was heavily damaged during one of the last major bombing raids on Berlin. The north facade and the upper floors were almost completely destroyed and the museum stocks burned in the cellar. The planned demolition of the ruin could be stopped on the initiative of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the co-founder of the Free University of Berlin Edwin Redslob and interventions by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius. Finally, the Gropius Bau was listed as a historical monument in 1966.
Rebuilding began in 1976 and the inauguration took place in 1981, at that time still in the state of shell construction. Due to its location directly on the Berlin Wall, access to the building was transferred from the former main portal to the south side and reopened only ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall at the present main entrance on Niederkirchnerstraße.
In 2001, the Berliner Festspiele took over the operation of the house. Since then, the Gropius Bau has developed into a renowned house in the fields of modern and contemporary art in interplay with archeology and cultural history. At the beginning of 2018 Stephanie Rosenthal took over the management of Gropius Bau. Their program stands for the opening of the institution as a place of artistic creation and exchange. Stephanie Rosenthal places artists as contributors to the center of the exhibition program and uses the principle "Walking in the Artist's Mind" to address the idea of studios and workshops that existed here in the days of the Kunstgewerbemuseum. In addition, it continues the tradition of archaeological collection presentations and links them with current issues and discourses.
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