14 March 2008 – 1 June 2008

Dani Karavan - Retrospective

This is the first time that a major retrospective has been devoted to the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in Germany. The exhibition is housed in the Martin-Gropius-Bau and mounted in cooperation with the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Previously it was to be seen at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The Association of Friends of the Nationalgalerie has given the exhibition generous backing, while the project would not have been possible without the support of the capital’s Cultural Fund. The exhibition will be a contribution to Israel’s 60th birthday.

The peculiar feature of Dani Karavan’s work as an artist is that it enables us to experience urban and landscape spaces in new and remarkable ways. His approach to this creative transformation is always determined by the historical associations of the site, and he uses a complex system of signs to develop a multitude of social, historical and political references which impose themselves on the viewer’s awareness through an unusual design of great aesthetic density. He transforms the power of memory to create new, sensuous and communicative spheres of experience.

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Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstrasse 7
10963 Berlin Kreuzberg
phone +49 30 25 48 60
http://www.gropiusbau.de

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Wednesday-Monday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

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