Originally called the Prinzessinnenpalais, Deutsche Bank’s PalaisPopulaire opened in September this year
Featuring over 300 works by some of the art world?s biggest names alongside emerging artists, Deutsche Bank?s new exhibition space, the PalaisPopulaire, presents a museum-quality show of inter-generational exploring the numerous ways in which artists work on paper ? and with surprising results. Anna Wallace-Thompson hopped over to Berlin to check out its inaugural show, The World on Paper
What would be the art world equivalent of a kid walking into a candy shop" Probably something akin to walking through swish, space-age sliding doors into a room to find oneself surrounded by names such as Joseph Beuys, Marcel Dzama, William Kentridge, Imran Qureshi, Katharina Grosse, James Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter? the list goes on. And on. And on. To say that the inaugural exhibition of Deutsche Bank?s new arts, culture and sports space at the fittingly titled PalaisPopulaire is something of a showstopper is to put it mildly. Follow LUX on Instagram: the.official.lux.magazine
Opening in late September after extensive renovations, the 18th century venue ? originally called the Prinzessinnenpalais ? has been remade twice during its colourful history, once in the 1960s, when it became a sort of ?it? destination, and now by architectural firm Kuehn Malvezzi. In its newest shiny incarnation it offers over 750 square metres of exhibition ...