In Berlin, trash cans are art? A train station is an art museum?


Hamburg Railway Station used to be a stop for trains between the German capital Berlin and Hamburg, and its waiting building is now home to the Berlin Museum of Modern Art, part of the National Art Gallery, one of the most successful modern art museums.

📍 Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin

Hamburg Railway Station is the only remaining terminal in Berlin, built between 1846 and 1847. The railway station building was badly damaged during World War II and was used as an exhibition space until the 1980s. After undergoing extensive renovation work, it was opened to the public as a contemporary museum in November 1996. As night falls, a light installation by artist Dan Flavin graces the facade of the museum building.

The combination of historical architectural elements and modern design styles creates the ideal conditions for a comprehensive display of modern art exhibits, with nearly 10,000 square meters of exhibition area concentrated in art from the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition is mainly composed of the collection of the Berlin State Museum and the private collection of Erich Marx, a private collector in Berlin, They include Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys, among others.

There are a total of 6 exhibition halls in it, and only three of them have been opened so far. Eva is in the most central exhibition hall. It includes video art, sculpture, installation and painting. The whole idea is that it's interesting to see how different countries are responding to current social issues and what they're telling us through art. There are some installation works are very suitable for photography Hey hey!

Usually 14 euros to visit Berlin's old train station - Hamburg train station, free admission this weekend, there are a lot of exhibitions, there are a lot of activities at the door, super lively! The souvenirs in the exhibition are very cheap, 12 postcards are only 1 euro, and the small necklace and key chain of the Berlin bear, the price is not high, buy casually. There are free clothes activities at the door, I brought a solid color T-shirt in advance, selected the pattern of this temporary exhibition, and the T-shirt that I was going to throw away now has a commemorative value.

Recently, there have been a series of events, such as the Berlin Beats 2024 program: Open Air on Friday. The atmosphere is fantastic, and it is really suitable for Berlin summer, with all kinds of dancing in front of the big garden. When you're tired, go inside the museum (free for a limited time) until Sunday, a bit like museum Night, where the DJ ends at 10 p.m. It is said that the campaign will run from this month to the end of August, the details can be seen on the website; Friends went to the early is not a lot of people, then a little too much. Grab some friends for a drink, sit down and talk, and start the perfect weekend (the music is just fine).

This day also coincides with the open house, the exhibition is free, there are bands in the courtyard and food stalls, and because the German Sunday business is all closed, there are a lot of people here to enjoy the weekend, really don't chill!



The exhibition Devouring Lovers by Eva Fabregas at the Hamburger Bahnhof Gallery in Berlin is recommended! The city of Berlin has a strong sense of geometric lines, from the neat Romanesque colonnades to the highly postmodernist decoration inside the subway station, the rhythm of the architectural language in the central area of Berlin is sonorous and solid, and each scene is like a series of architectural sketches with perspective, composed of repeated regular horizontal and vertical lines. Only the river Spree, which runs through Berlin, brings a rhythm like a grace note to the solemn Berlin in winter.

Thick industrial wind and a sense of regularity also pervades the fashion of the streets of Berlin, where people are like abstract collages of various black, white and gray cami pure color blocks, which are completely different from the fresh, fragrant, intoxicated, lazy and free overflowing people in Paris. The organic, soft sculptures of the Fabregas engulf the lobby of the Hamburg train Station Art Gallery, inflatable, colorful sculptures that vibrate in the air like breathing organs, pulsating with hot blood. These airy sculptures lie on the floor or hang from beams, poetic metaphors of a swelling, tumor-like love. Maybe it's the subconscious bubbling beneath this neat, steely city.

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