• Claus Rottenbacher Westort | Ostort Raumporträts: Das ICC und die Fahrbereitschaft
  • Claus Rottenbacher Westort | Ostort Raumporträts: Das ICC und die Fahrbereitschaft
  • Claus Rottenbacher Westort | Ostort Raumporträts: Das ICC und die Fahrbereitschaft
  • Claus Rottenbacher Westort | Ostort Raumporträts: Das ICC und die Fahrbereitschaft
  • Claus Rottenbacher Westort | Ostort Raumporträts: Das ICC und die Fahrbereitschaft

Claus Rottenbacher Westort | Ostort Raumporträts: Das ICC und die Fahrbereitschaft

What do West Berlin's world-famous ICC, one of the most important pieces of 1970s pop and hi-tech architecture, and the nondescript garages, lounges, or bowling alley of the erstwhile motor pool of the GDR Council of Ministers in Lichtenberg, East Berlin, have in common? The first was created in order to show off West Berlin's claim to global city status. To this day it is regarded as one of the most successful conference centers, yet the ICC's future is still under dispute. The second was once used by the SED leadership to exhibit their claims to power and has been used, since the regime's collapse in 1989, by automobilefocused firms and now also as a gallery, exhibition and studio center. Berlin-based photographer Claus Rottenbacher and architecture historian Nikolaus Bernau investigate the astonishingly well-preserved state of these chronological documents, their ostentatious aesthetic orientation to the "zeitgeist" which was, after all, put to the service of completely different social and cultural systems. They discover a commonality that is located beyond the formal differences.

Hardcover 30 x 24 cm 96 pages 61 color illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-644-1 2015

Artist:

Claus Rottenbacher

Texts:

Nikolaus Bernau

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Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Berlin
31.07. – 24.08.2015

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C/O Berlin
27.10.2015, 20 Uhr

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