Performance premiere of Nezaket Ekici’s „Panta Rhei” in the Bröhan-Museum

In 2021, Karl H. Bröhan, that was an art histrorian, would have turned 100 years old. The round birthday gives the occasion for a large-scale anniversary exhibition: in a novel and unusual presentation covering the entire exhibition space of the Bröhan-Museum more of the collection than ever before is shown. Display cases with collection highlights as well as some rarely shown treasures alternate with period rooms of French Art Nouveau, the reform-minded designs of German Art Nouveau, Art Deco and the functionalist design of the 1920s. Paintings of the Berlin Secession, as well as unusual collection blocks – animal figurines, for instance – are also presented. Furthermore, selected acquisitions of recent years show the development of the collection. Paintings, graphic art, furniture, porcelain as well as metal and glass art will all be on display.

For the first time in the history of the Bröhan-Museum, there is also a contemporary art intervention with works from the collection: internationally renowned performance artist Nezaket Ekici takes a new look at the collection during the exhibition – engaging with the Bröhan-Museum’s porcelain collection, she realizes a performance installation at the museum, called „Panta Rhei”, on 6.11.2021.

“Everything flows”, translates the title of the piece, and indeed it is not only paint, but time and space, shifting, that feels fluid on this very special occasion.

The porcelain sculptures created during the performance remain as part of the anniversary exhibition „Bröhan Total!”, on view until 16 January.