Description
In its exhibition rooms at Lietzenseepark, the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank is showing figurative art from the post-war period with a focus on art from the GDR.
The paintings, sculptures and works on paper come from the Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank (art collection), which is owned by the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank.
The Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank´s was founded in 1985 under the motto “Bilder vom Menschen – Bilder für Menschen” (“Images of People – Images for People”). It comprises over 1,500 works by around 200 artists.
A special feature of the collection is the high proportion of artists from the GDR, including influential representatives of the Berliner and Leipziger Schule, from Dresden and the alternative art scene in East Berlin. However, West Berlin art movements such as the Neue Wilde and other important West German positions are also part of the collection´s multi-layered profile.
Changing exhibitions at the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank offer varied insights into this extraordinary art collection and encourage visitors to explore themes such as identity, social change and contemporary history. They make the development of the art scene in Berlin and neighboring regions comprehensible - from the division of the city to the turbulent period of reunification and the tension between East and West. Collaborations with national and international cultural institutions and contemporary artists complement the exhibition concepts.
The Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank not only presents German art history of the past decades, but is also a place of cultural education and participation. In 2005, it founded one of the first museum education programs in Berlin with the Werkstatt für Kreative. In free age-differentiated workshops, daycare groups and school classes visit the respective exhibition, learn about artistic techniques and transform them into their own works of art.
