Konstantin Bayer DER WEIMARHALLENPARK

until 21.04. | #3387ARTatBerlin | EIGENHEIM Berlin presents from 25. March 2022 the solo exhibition DER WEIMARHALLENPARK – Fragmente zur Geschichte und Gegenwart ( > THE WEIMARHALLENPARK – Fragments on the past and present) by the artist Konstantin Bayer. The Weimarhallenpark – a place of recreation, inspiration, art and culture – as a landscape and cultural monument a mediator of history and a place of living present. The artist Konstantin Bayer is interested in the dialogue between man and nature as well as in historical and current situations of social upheaval. Both areas of interest find a catalyst in the examination of this place. The EIGENHEIM gallery, of which Konstantin Bayer is the artistic director, was founded in Weimar in 2006 and has found its new home in the gardener’s house of the Weimarhallenpark since 2016. The construction of the new Bauhaus Museum, by architect Heike Hanada, in the immediate vicinity of EIGENHEIM Weimar, has given the Weimarhallenpark, which was first mentioned in a document as a ducal tree garden in the 15th century, a new orientation. The history of the park is a reminder of the past centuries, of prosperous as well as harrowing social conditions, be it the […]