El Lissitzky’s Kabinett der Abstrakten
El Lissitzky built this modular and changeable room for abstract art in 1927–28 at the invitation of Alexander Dorner for the Landesmuseum in Hannover. The Abstract Cabinet was destroyed in 1936 during the Third Reich. The installation came to mind immediately when Ahmet Öğüt called for an “intervention that is not permanent, but [that uses] the art already existing in a given museum as a tool that could create new readings, understandings, misunderstandings, and new life for the collection.”

Photographs of the Abstract Cabinet show works by Piet Mondrian, Mies van der Rohe, and others.

on December 3rd, 2018