Duet of Modernism

Art meets architecture: Bettina Cohnen brings together East and West as well as combining a photo essay and photographic art in ‘’Duett der Moderne‘’. In her photo series, she shows people in the famous post-war Berlin neighbourhoods of Karl-Marx-Allee and the Hansaviertel in their surroundings, with all their complexity and intimacy. At the same time, she traces the idea behind the respective architecture. After all, the essential concern of modernist architects was good and affordable housing for everyone. This applied as from 1950 to the planning of the ‘Sozialistische Straße’ and later Karl-Marx-Allee in East Berlin as well as to the new Hansaviertel in West Berlin in 1957. Today, the rivalry between the systems has turned into a duet: a duo uniting East and West.

The exhibition at the Mitte Museum Berlin and the book of the same name create a visual and historical panorama that understands Berlin’s architecture as a mirror of social developments.

Mitte Museum
Pankstr. 47
13357 Berlin

More information about the exhibition.

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More on the book Duet of Modernism can be found here.