WHERE: Bass Museum of Art
WHEN: November 3, 2006 - January 21, 2007
DETAILS: This is the first major survey of contemporary art made in Europe’s emerging art capital, post-Wall Berlin. Constructing New Berlin, a multi-generational survey, includes approximately eighteen Berlin-based artists of various nationalities working in painting, sculpture, photography, film installation, video-installation, sound, and performance art. A selection of artists includes Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller, Swetlana Heger, Thomas Demand, Carsten Nicolai, and Frank Thiel. The majority of works in the exhibition are from the twentieth-century, including a number of new pieces made specifically for this project.