It was impressive that the main exhibits were mostly from American Contemporary Art in 70-90s, and that there was hardly German artists’ work exhibited. When looking at from the 21 century’s point of view, it makes me feel the time surely passed. DaimlerChrysler is also a sponsor of Public Art in Potsdamer Platz in this connection.

Public Art in Potsdamer Platz

Passing by the side of Neue Nationalgalerie, which was closed in spite of this time, we went to Chiharu Shiota Exhibition in Lutzwowplatz. There were three big installations she empasized. She was in performance getting into one of them. In terms of the structure of the building, pillars and beams covered her works as if a frame, and she was standing over the works showing her back and facing over there. From what I hear, she kept doing this without moving an inch for about 4 hours.

Chiharu Shiota in performance

After talking with some friends, we took a bus towards the next destination. Although many people got off the bus, we went in the opposite direction of them. They seemed to go to the Jewish Museum, which is famous for architecture by Daniel Libeskind. Where we went to was Berlinische Galerie. We could see the exhibits by teachers in Universitaete der Kuenste (UDK) there.

Berlinische Galerie

Lastly, we watched “Transatlantische Impulse”, an exhibition by participants of exchange program between Berlin and LA, at Martin-Gropius-Bau. It might be because of exhaustion for watching unusual ammount of exhibits, but I was amazed this lack of impact. Although it was already around 11:00pm, we had a little bit late dinner at familiar Vietnamese restaurant. We finished the day with pleasant feeling by the surprisingly entertained New Year’s food and decoration after the midnight.

The 19th Lange Nacht Der Museen (Long Night of Museums)
Date: January 28th, 2006
Place: Berlin City
https://www.lange-nacht-der-museen.de