Bunker converted into a museum welcomes you in Berlin the private collection of Feuerle – Terra Peru

Berlin expands its cultural offer with the opening Saturday of a new museum in which its founder, the art historian expert on Asia Desire Feuerle, opens to the public his private collection in a frame very unique, an old bunker of telecommunications of times of the II World War.

“The Feuerle Collection” presents ancient art of southeast asia and parts of furniture, chinese imperial, that is juxtaposed with the work of contemporary artists such as Cristina Iglesias, Anish Kapoor and Zeng Fenzhi, among others.

“It’s my collection, what I have created here is my personal vision (of art). I thought that it was very important to do something different,” explained Feuerle in conversation with Efe.

The tour begins in “The Sound Room”, a space completely dark in which the visitor is invited to listen for three minutes and twenty seconds shades minimalist and the silence created by John Cage, to go “in a completely different world”.

“For me really it is very important for the people to live an experience, in another world,” said the collector.

effected for 6,480 square feet of museum include, in addition to two exhibition halls and “The Sound Room”, a space on the ground floor -”The Lake Room”- which houses about 2,400 square feet a lake, part of the exhibition also provided sustainable energy for the heating.

The coming year is expected to open also The “Incense Room”, a space “very minimalist” to recreate the incense ceremony, a spiritual discipline of Chinese traditional to observe the body and mind.

Feuerle acknowledged that “it was not easy to” reconvert a bunker of telecommunications in a museum, a responsibility that fell to the british architect John Pawson.

“Has the perfect environment,” said the collector, who explained that temperature control was one of the major problems they had to solve.

The building is beautiful, according to the collector, and “a sculpture in itself in that venture”, forming what they called a “Gesamtwerk”, a work integral.

you Have installed the sculptures, with plenty of space and air around allows you to “feel” the parts, that don’t come explained in posters as is usually the classical concept of the museum, said the collector.

During the guided visits, in groups of a maximum of 14 people, visitors will be able to feel the sculptures and, if you want more information, consult the guides.

Feuerle dreamed of since 30 years ago with a monastery, “a beautiful place to see” and “that minimalism healthy for the art.”

“This is a monastery very different,” said the collector on the bunker converted into a museum, located in the multicultural neighborhood of Kreuzberg.

Already opened their doors for a week at the end of April with his collection and in the summer, was one of the scenarios of the NINTH Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art.

“I Am very pleased to open this museum in Berlin, my private collection, that I want to share with the city and with all the world,” said Feuerle, who wants to invite the viewer to delve into his particular vision of art.