Westort - Ostort

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What do West Berlin’s world-famous ICC, one of the most important pieces of 1970s pop and hi-tech architecture, and the nondescript garages, lounges, or bowling alley of the erstwhile motor pool of the GDR Council of Ministers in Lichtenberg, East Berlin, have in common? The first was created in order to show off West Berlin’s claim to global city status. To this day it is regarded as one of the most successful conference centers, yet the ICC’s future is still under dispute. The second was once used by the SED leadership to exhibit their claims to power and has been used, since the regime’s collapse in 1989, by automobilefocused firms and now also as a gallery, exhibition and studio center. Berlin-based photographer Claus Rottenbacher and architecture historian Nikolaus Bernau investigate the astonishingly well-preserved state of these chronological documents, their ostentatious aesthetic orientation to the 'zeitgeist' which was, after all, put to the service of completely different social and cultural systems. 00Exhibition: Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Berlin, Germany (31.07. - 24.08.2015)