Light art in the Office of the Federal President
A light installation by artist and musician Carsten Nicolai will be on display in the planned new entrance building of the Office of the Federal President in Berlin.
The aim of the art-in-architecture competition was to find a suitable work of art or artistic intervention for the air space of the new entrance building below the five metre high ceiling. According to the jury, Carsten Nicolai’s artistic idea responds in a special way to the conditions of the location and its representative function: “He chooses a formal language that is convincing on an aesthetic and conceptual level and represents the importance of the highest federal authority to the outside world in a worthy manner.”
- The artist proposes a pulsating cloud of light – a light installation consisting of around 260 light sources, which is distributed in the air like a swarm and thus thematises the relationship of the individual to the whole.
“The installation thus serves as a symbol of lived social diversity, which nevertheless forms a ‘voice’.”
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Carsten Nicolai | Visualisierung des neuen Eingangsgebäudes mit Lichtinstallation in der Dämmerung. >> Eine Lichtinstallation des Berliner Künstlers Carsten Nicolai wird den neuen zentralen Eingangsbereich des Bundespräsidialamts in Berlin bereichern. Das Preisgericht für den Kunst-am-Bau-Wettbewerb zeichnete den Entwurf „Autopoiesis – Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen“ mit dem 1. Preis aus. Wie der nun entschiedene Wettbewerb wird auch das geplante Neubauvorhaben für das Bundespräsidialamt vom Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR) betreut.
Termin: under construction / permanent installation | ready in 2025
Adresse: Office of the Federal President Berlin / Germany