Celebrating 15 years

Just days before turning sweet16, the Schinkel Pavillon celebrates a milestone 15th birthday in retrospect with an anniversary mailing.

It is with great joy that Nina Pohl and her team look back on 15 years of not only exhibitions and performances, but also lectures, screenings, concerts, talks, and interventions realized by over 400 artists and countless supporters.

The Schinkel Pavillon was built in the garden of the Kronprinzenpalais in 1969. From 1919 until 1937, the Kronprinzenpalais housed the “Gallery of the Living”, a section of the Nationalgalerie Berlin and the world’s first institutional presentation of contemporary art, which served as one of the key models for the founding of the MoMA in New York and other contemporary art museums around the world.

In 2007, the then-abandoned Pavillon of the Kronprinzenpalais’ ensemble was opened as a showcase for contemporary art. Ever since, the Schinkel Pavillon has acted as a platform for experimental and boundary-pushing artistic practice and discourse, while preserving and nurturing the octagonal architectural monument. Invited artists often create newly commissioned, site-specific installations, which almost always address current socio-political questions.

Moreover, with the extensive performance program “Disappearing Berlin,” the Schinkel Pavillon continues its commitment to preserving public spaces beyond the bounds of its own walls since 2019. With over 30 performances and musical events at external venues slated to be demolished and quite literally vanish from the urban landscape, “Disappearing Berlin” directly counteracts the privatization, and decay of public and listed spaces with the means of art. 

The Schinkel Pavillon would like to thank the many artists and supporters who have contributed to this renowned history, and wish all a very happy holidays.

Schinkel Pavillon
Anna Uddenberg, Jon Rafman, Pope.L, Hans Bellmer, HR Giger, Mire Lee, Asad Raza, Fahim Amir, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Jennifer Jacquet, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Cooking Sections, Kazim Ali, Arjun Appadurai, Emanuele Coccia, Melanie Sehgal, Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell, Isabell Schnalle, Louis A. Krüger, The Mycological Twist |Monira Al Qadiri, Karl Blossfeldt, Dora Budor, Max Ernst, Joan Fontcuberta, Karrabbing Film Collective, Max Hooper Schneider, Pierre Huyghe, Emma Kunz, Richard Oelze, Precious Okoyomon, Neri Oxman, Jean Painlevé, Pamela Rosenkranz, Rachel Rose, Henri Rousseau, Torbjørn Rødland, Ryūichi Sakamoto, Anj Smith, Simon Denny, Ahmet Öğüt, Marianna Simnett, Billy Bultheel, Raphaela Vogel, Jimmy Robert, Karl Holmqvist, Henrike Naumann, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Lucrecia Dalt, John Miller, Danica Barboza, Mohamed Bourouissa, Christopher Kulendran Thomas in collaboration with Annika Kuhlmann, Victor Man, Jill Mulleady, Issy Wood, Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Jenna Bliss, Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz, Teresa Burga, Tom Burr, Claude Cahun, Ellen Cantor, Tony Cokes, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Anna Daučíková, Nicole Eisenman, Ellen Gallagher, Jef Geys, Guerilla Girls, Barbara Hammer, Eva Hesse, Irma Hünerfauth, Maria Lassnig, Leigh Ledare, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Klara Lidén, Lee Lozano, Sarah Lucas, Ulrike Müller, Gabriele Münter, Anna Oppermann, Charlotte Posenenske, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Aura Rosenberg, Betye Saar, Heji Shin, Jack Smith, Nancy Spero, Diamond Stingily, Martine Syms, Sturtevant, Rosemarie Trockel, Constantina Zavitsanos, Park McArthur, Stan Brakhage, David Kamp, Henrik Olesen, CryptoKitties, Aria Dean, Distributed Gallery, FOAM (Ryan John King, Ekaterina Zavyalova, Nick Axel, Kristoffer Josefsson), Sarah Hamerman & Sam Hart, Decentralized Autonomous Kunstverein (Nick Koppenhagen & Wesley Simon), Kei Kreutler, left gallery (Harm van den Dorpel, Paloma Rodríguez Carrington), Wayne Lloyd, Mark Lombardi, Jonas Lund, Rob Myers, Hayal Pozanti, Billy Rennekamp, Jason Rohrer, Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft, 0xΩ (Avery Singer, Matt Liston), terra0 (Paul Seidler, Paul Kolling, Max Hampshire) in collaboration with Georgia Hansford, Louis Center, Gregor Finger, Louise Bourgeois, Jordan Wolfson, Oliver Laric, Eliza Douglas, Marguerite Humeau, Peter Wächtler, Pierre Klossowski, Paul Thek, Jason Dodge, BLESS, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Manuel Reader, Goshka Macuga, Adam Linder, Shahryar Nashat |Andrew Hardwidge, Hannah Weinberger, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Grayson Revoir, Marlene McCarty, Anthea Hamilton, Nicholas Byrne, Paul McCarthy, Alina Szapocznikow, Alisa Baremboym, Aleksandra Domanović | Sarah Lucas, Katja Novitskova, Carolee Schneemann, Anicka Yi, Gretchen Bender, Neïl Beloufa, Philippe Parreno, Thomas Hirschhorn, Eva Koťátková, Camille Henrot, Tatiana Trouvé, Martin Ebner, Kris Lemsalu, Thomas Zipp, Mundi Vondi, Will Benedict, Wolfgang Ganter, Tom Humphreys, Vanessa Lodigiani, Katrin Plavčak, Michael Beutler, Michele di Menna, Marlie Mul, Christian Falsnaes, Douglas Gordon, Karl Holmqvist, Kolbeinn Hugi, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Jeremy Shaw, Oscar Tuazon, DAS NUMEN, Keiichi Tanaami, Cyprien Gaillard, Karla Black, Cerith Wyn Evans, Anselm Reyle, Franz West, Isa Genzken, Saâdane Afif, Jannis Kounellis, Friedrich Kunath, John Bock, Lucy Powell, Anri Sala, Ulrike Heise, Henrik Håkansson, John Smith, Carsten Höller, Julieta Aranda, Christoph Keller, Fischli / Weiss, Franz Stauffenberg, Werner Herzog, Massimilian Breeder, Nina Breeder, Nina Pohl, Patricia Woerler-Horzon, Aaron Curry, Geerten Verheus, Jack Goldstein, Paul Sietsema, Andro Wekua, Mike Kelley, Christian Jankowski, Dirk Bell, Johannes Albers, Mandla Reuter, Olaf Metzel, Bernar Venet, Marcel Odenbach, Paulina Ołowska, Banu Cennetoğlu, Philippine Hoegen, Masist Gül, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Ettore Sottsass, Lars Laumann, Hariton Pushwagner, Janette Laverrière, Nairy Baghramian, Manfred Pernice, Thomas Scheibitz, Tom Burr, Sylvie Fleury.

Disappearing Berlin
Secret Bar by Dan De Norch, Maya Shenfeld, Young Boy Dancing Group, Steven Warwick with Angharad, Williams & Oliver Corino, Billy Bultheel & Spyros Rennt by Joel Mu, Georgia Gardner Gray, Eli Keszler, Piety with Cyril Baldy, Patrick Belaga, Graziano Capitta, Thilo Glarus, Josh Johnson & Nicole Walker, Die Hässlichen Vögel by Dan De Norch, Marianna Simnett by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Kammerqueers (Keith Zenga King & Lola Fonsèque) with House of Living Colors, Queer Arab Barty, Bad puppy & Mercedes Blenz, Fatima Al Qadiri, Sophia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, Sara Sadik, Lafawndah with Havel Khalil Band, Zadiel Sasmaz, Raed Yassin & Habibi Funk by Martha Kirszenbaum, Mohamed Bourouissa, Tony Elieh, Paulina Greta, Dorine Potel, Youmna Saba, Sina XX & 2038, Moriah Evans, Lilly Pfalzer, Frankie & caner taker & Kulør presents Courtesy, Minais B & Sofie Birch by Marie-Therese Bruglacher, Dan De Norch & Christopher Weickenmeier, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff with Karl Holmqvist, Lily McMenamy, Dan Bodan, Eric D. Clark, Julianknxx, Nathan Eddy, Bendik Giske & Wojtek Blecharz, POLIGONAL x Noam Brusilovsky, Bierpinsel x Reference Festival with Éva Mag, Amnesia Scanner, YaYa Bones, Radio Acoma by Asad Raza with Abdu Ali, Kazim Ali, Lesley-Ann Brown, Rhea Dillon, Moriah Evans, Camille Henrot, Prem Krishnamurthy, Sahra Motalebi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Imran Perretta, Monira Al Qadiri, Anri Sala, Marianna Simnett, Adam Thirlwell, Andros Zins-Browne Simon Denny & Sarah Friend, Mark Fisher & Justin Barton, STILL B2B with Lamin Fofana, Manthia Diawara, Cao Fei, Cyprien Gaillard by Marie-Therese Bruglacher & Bill Kouligas, Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Billy Bultheel & Viviana Abelson, Leila Hekmat, Florentina Holzinger, Human Fly by Malina Heinemann & Joseph Kadow, 15 years Schinkel Pavillon with Baal&Mortimer, Richard Kennedy in collaboration with Tianna Strickland and Marlee Weinberg, Asma Maroof & Tapiwa Svosve, Dmitra + Soraya, quest?onmarq, AUCO by Marie-Therese Bruglacher & Annina Herzer.