Café Schadow

DELAYED AGAIN
glassfaçade and furnishing for the café of the German Federal Parliament at Schadowstraße 4, Berlin
glassfaçade: silkscreen with transparent colors on glass, 353 x 5062 cm, maquette images


Exhibiton at Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung, Straße des 17.Juni 1012, 10623 Berlin
11.07.2017 to 28.07.2017, Mo-Fr 9am to 6 pm


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Kunst für den Deutschen Bundestag


Kunst für den Deutschen Bundestag


Café Schadow examines the connection between the history of architecture and the history of democracy.
Open glass buildings of modernism in the West and East are superimposed with images from the picture archive of the Federal Government, with a special focus on the few female personalities since the post-war period. For the three-colour baked ceramic screen print (350 cm x 5100 cm), a special coarse grid was developed from the three primary colors, so that abstract patterns and volumes can be seen up close and the seamless motifs can be seen from a distance.
These are mixed with the artist's own motifs of demolished GDR modernist architecture. The gridded motif is used in very large dots, which are only perceived as an image at a certain distance.
Inside, white parallelogram-shaped tables and round coloured glass tables will accommodate the overlapping views and the play of light and colour of the facade. The tables are mirrored: there are left- and right-angled tables that can be arranged as a group but not mixed.


350 cm x 5100 cm
Three-four-colour screen printing of transparent ceramic enamel colours on triple glazing
Completion expected in 2024