Bröhan Total! at the Bröhan Museum
06/10/2021 > 16/01/2022
In 2021, the museum’s founder, Karl H. Bröhan, would have been 100 years old. This round anniversary is the occasion for a large-scale anniversary exhibition: more of the collection than ever before will be on display in a new and unusual presentation throughout the exhibition space. Exhibition spaces presenting the highlights of the collection, as well as treasures, some of which are rarely shown, alternate with period rooms on French Art Nouveau, German Art Nouveau reformist designs, Art Deco and functionalist design of the 1920s. The Berlin Secession’s collection of paintings is on display, as well as unusual collection blocks – for example, animal figurines. A selection of new acquisitions from recent years also shows the development of the collection. Paintings, graphic art, furniture, porcelain as well as metal and glass art will be on display. On the occasion of the exhibition, the Bröhan Museum was also able to acquire a large-format painting by Franz Skarbina thanks to a private donation, which will also be on display.
In addition, in June 2021 the museum received an extensive donation from a private Berlin collector – a private collector from Berlin-Schöneberg donated his collection of over 100 colourful glasses by the Munich designer Jean Beck (1862-1938) to the museum, which had once inspired him to collect them. The glasses are now being presented for the first time. The phenomenon of “satellite collections” – collections directly inspired by the Bröhan Museum – is also explored in the exhibition using the example of two other collections.
For the first time in the history of the Bröhan Museum, there is also an intervention of contemporary art with works from the collection: The internationally renowned performance artist Nezaket Ekici will take a new look at the collection during the exhibition – she will realise a performance installation in the museum in which she deals with the Bröhan Museum’s porcelain collection.
