Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German Archive

Osborne, Dora

Abstract

In 2009 Germany celebrated sixty years since the founding of the Federal Republic and twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That double-anniversary year two exhibitions opened in Berlin: the high-profile, popular show60 Jahre—60 Werkeat the Martin-Gropius-Bau and a solo show in Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie by the Munich-born artist Thomas Demand. Demand had been invited to participate in60 Jahre, but, fearing that the show was concerned with things other than art, had declined.¹ It seemed Demand was right: one critic dismissed60 Jahreas “kunsthistorische[r] Blödsinn” (art historical nonsense) and Günter...

Citation

Osborne, D. (2015). Thomas Demand's Nationalgalerie: Reconstructing a German Archive. In D. Osborne (Ed.), Archive and memory in German literature and visual culture (85-104). Camden House

• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 14, 2015
• Pages: 85-104
• Series Title: Edinburgh German yearbook
• Book Title: Archive and memory in German literature and visual culture.
• Chapter Number: 4
• Publisher URL: https://boydellandbrewer.com/edinburgh-german-yearbook-9-hb.html