Bunker Berlin #5

The Companion Book to the Fifth Presentation from the Collection

In a present where external order is increasingly felt to be unstable, our emphasis is shifting toward inner states. Withdrawal, interiority, and psychological intensification are becoming defining tendencies in contemporary art. The fifth presentation of the Boros Collection begins precisely where external realities start to fracture. 

This new selection from the collection of Christian and Karen Boros extends across all five floors of the former air-raid bunker in Berlin-Mitte and features recent acquisitions placed in relation to works from the collection that have not previously been included in a collection presentation. Across 27 artistic positions, a dramaturgy of transition unfolds: figures, spaces, and situations appear not as fixed images, but as processes, states, and afterimages. What becomes visible is less a world out there, than its echo within bodies and psyches. Many of the participating artists and their galleries are closely connected to Berlin. The city is therefore not just a backdrop but a central resonance site for the showcase. 

The catalogue accompanying the fifth collection presentation of the Boros Collection offers an in-depth engagement with the artistic positions, groups of works, and spatial relations on view. The texts were written by Raoul Zoellner, Director of the Boros Foundation. 

Artists 

Tomma Abts, Lorenzo Amos, Ed Atkins, Oliver Bak, Adriano Costa, Grant Falardeau, Louis Fratino, Cyprien Gaillard, Salim Green, Lukas Heerich, Samuel Hindolo, Klára Hosnedlova, Brook Hsu, Kitty Kraus, Mire Lee, Benjamin Lallier, Klara Liden, Conny Maier, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Jill Mulleady, Jonathan Okoronkwo, Silke Otto-Knapp, Rim Park, Jeremy Shaw, Pol Taburet, Sung Tieu, Paloma Varga Weisz