In the fall of 2016, in the course of a generational change, the Museum Frieder Burda opened the Salon Berlin in one of the most vital art districts of the capital. Closely linked to the museum in Baden-Baden, the Salon was more than just a project and showroom that accompanied and conveyed the museum program and the collection of the mother house. Under the artistic direction of Patricia Kamp, a place of exchange and discourse had been created in the former Jewish Girls' School in Auguststraße, dedicated to the promotion and mediation of new forms of artistic expression. In changing exhibitions, individual, outstanding positions of the Frieder Burda Collection were brought into a dynamic field of tension with contemporary art.
As a forum for international contemporary art, the Salon Berlin used the expertise of one of the most successful private museums in Germany to present contemporary positions in Berlin in challenging contexts and combinations. Young artists such as Alicja Kwade or Nathalie Djurberg entered into dialogue with works by Sigmar Polke or Willem de Kooning from the Frieder Burda Collection. For each exhibition, thematic and aesthetic concepts were developed that shaped the visual design of the salon and also the supporting program.
With its thematically and aesthetically developed exhibition formats, the Salon Berlin aimed to transcend boundaries. It did not only want to present urgent positions, but to provide intellectual and emotional impulses through art to develop necessary visions for a common future.
The exhibition by Katharina Sieverding (03 September 2021 – 26 September 2021) marked the end of the Frieder Burda Foundation's exhibition and project space in Berlin.
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