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Such a great night!
“HOUSE OF GLASS – On Constructing and Deconstructing.  A performative portrait of the American architect Philip Johnson"
September 3rd, 2026, Schinkel Pavillon Berlin , Voices: Pia Dembinski / Stella Voge, Music: Sascha Brosamer / Graham Dunning,  Sound Engineer: Isa Ferri , Dramaturgy: Holger Kuhla , Script: Markus Draper / Holger Kuhla , Concept: Markus Draper

Thank you @piadembinski @frauvoge @saschabrosamer #grahamdunning #holgerkuhla for your fantastic work!
Thank you @schinkelpavillon for hosting us!
And very special thanks to our two angels in the back: Isa+Marci! - images by Hans-Georg Gaul, Daniel Hopp, Hanna Bilfinger
#markusdraper
#markusdraperstudio by @markusdraperstudio

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PERFORMATIVE LESUNG: MARKUS DRAPER — HAUS AUS GLAS

3. September 2026, 20Uhr

TICKETS via Resident Advisor, Link in der Bio

HAUS AUS GLAS – Vom Bauen und Niederreißen (Ein performatives Porträt des amerikanischen Architekten Philip Johnson) ist eine performative Lesung für zwei Stimmen, Musik und Bild. Ausgangspunkt ist die Biografie des amerikanischen Architekten Philip Johnson (1906–2005), einer Schlüsselfigur des „American Century“. An ihr untersucht die Arbeit die vielfach verschränkten Beziehungen zwischen Architektur, Macht, Ideologie und Erinnerung.

Mit Pia Dembinski, Stella Voge, Sascha Brosamer und Graham Dunning.

Gefördert von der Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung und Karin Hänel / Bernd Bilitewski.

Konzeption: Markus Draper
Text: Markus Draper / Holger Kuhla
Stimmen: Pia Dembinski / Stella Voge
Musik: Sascha Brosamer / Graham Dunning
Dramaturgie: Holger Kuhla
Bühnenbild: Markus Draper by @markusdraperstudio

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2 months ago

Very warm invite to HOUSE OF GLASS – a staged reading for two voices, music, and image.
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2026, 8 p.m.
@schinkelpavillon, Oberwallstraße 32, 10117 Berlin
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HOUSE OF GLASS is an exploration of the relationship between architecture and power, examined through the biography of the American architect Philip Johnson (1906–2005). Johnson is considered one of the defining figures of the “American Century.”
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HOUSE OF GLASS takes on the challenge of creating an artistic portrait and pursues two distinctive approaches. First, it interprets the only painting in Johnson’s Glass House—The Funeral of Phocion (1648) by Nicolas Poussin—as a psychoanalytic mirror of Johnson himself. Second, a completely novel aspect of this project is that Johnson’s biography will be told from the perspective of the two cities that most decisively shaped his work: Berlin and Potsdam. From this vantage point, the piece also casts a spotlight on current debates surrounding how to deal with the architectural legacies of power from former dictatorships in these cities.
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Funded by the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation and Karin Hänel / Bernd Bilitewski.
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Concept: Markus Draper
Script: Markus Draper / Holger Kuhla
Voices: Pia Dembinski / Stella Voge
Music: Sascha Brosamer / Graham Dunning
Dramaturgy: Holger Kuhla
Live Sound Engineer: Isa Ferri
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Performance in German/English, fully subtitled.
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TICKETS via Resident Advisor – link in my bio.
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#piadembinski
#stellavoge
#saschabrosamer
#grahamdunning
#holgerkuhla
#hausausglas
#philipjohnson
#philipjohnsonglasshouse
#modernpostmodern
#markusdraper
#markusdraperstudio by @markusdraperstudio

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Very warm invite to HOUSE OF GLASS – a staged reading for two voices, music, and image.
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2026, 8 p.m.
@schinkelpavillon, Oberwallstraße 32, 10117 Berlin
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HOUSE OF GLASS is an exploration of the relationship between architecture and power, examined through the biography of the American architect Philip Johnson (1906–2005). Johnson is considered one of the defining figures of the “American Century.”
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HOUSE OF GLASS takes on the challenge of creating an artistic portrait and pursues two distinctive approaches. First, it interprets the only painting in Johnson’s Glass House—The Funeral of Phocion (1648) by Nicolas Poussin—as a psychoanalytic mirror of Johnson himself. Second, a completely novel aspect of this project is that Johnson’s biography will be told from the perspective of the two cities that most decisively shaped his work: Berlin and Potsdam. From this vantage point, the piece also casts a spotlight on current debates surrounding how to deal with the architectural legacies of power from former dictatorships in these cities.
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Funded by the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation and Karin Hänel / Bernd Bilitewski.
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Concept: Markus Draper
Script: Markus Draper / Holger Kuhla
Voices: Pia Dembinski / Stella Voge
Music: Sascha Brosamer / Graham Dunning
Dramaturgy: Holger Kuhla
Live Sound Engineer: Isa Ferri
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Performance in German/English, fully subtitled.
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TICKETS via Resident Advisor – link in my bio.
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#piadembinski
#stellavoge
#saschabrosamer
#grahamdunning
#holgerkuhla
#hausausglas
#philipjohnson
#philipjohnsonglasshouse
#modernpostmodern
#markusdraper
#markusdraperstudio by @markusdraperstudio

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2 months ago

Last chance to see: @neuerberlinerkunstverein: „Memory is a strange Bell“ – until May 3rd!
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„The photograph captioned by Johnson with a reference to the burnt village shows an enchanting night view of the glass house under a full moon, with indirect light in the trees and clouds drifting across the sky. When image and text are so consciously matched, their effect, haunted by Romantic formulas and crackling with the memory of modern devastation, cannot but produce a frisson. It is as if the appeal of the image-perhaps too perfectly fabricated to correspond to an actual impression-resulted from a terrible memory that injects a disturbing ambivalence into every one of its aspects: illuminated as if set ablaze, lost in a pitch-black forest under leaden clouds, the glass house virtually bursts apart as an object.“
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(Quoted from: Kurt W Forster, „The Autobiographical House: Around a Haunted Heart“, in: „Philip Johnson. The Constancy of Change“, Ed. by Emmanuel Petit, New Haven 2009, p.50
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Image 1-3, 6: Hans-Georg Gaul, Berlin
Image 4,5: Philip Johnson, „House in New Canaan, Connecticut“ In: Architectural Review, September 1950, Volume 108, Number 645
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#theglasshouse
#philipjohnsonglasshouse
#intheshadowoftheglasswall
#memoryisastrangebell
#markusdraperstudio
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5 months ago

For Markus Draper, houses often serve as a starting point, acting as repositories of complex and contradictory histories. His new work in the exhibition Memory Is a Strange Bell at n.b.k. is based on long-term research into the Glass House (1949), the iconic residence in Connecticut designed by Philip Johnson (1906–2005). The transparent structure consists of a single room containing a large dark-red brick cylinder that accommodates a fireplace and the bathroom. Johnson first revealed the source of inspiration for this unusual architectural element in a 1950 article in Architectural Review, stating that the motif and form of the brick cylinder were based on a burned-down village. In a foreword about Johnson, the architect Peter Eisenman questioned this statement: “Who would build a house as a metaphorical ruin?” Johnson’s work as a war correspondent during World War II and his embrace of fascist ideology are not mentioned in such contexts. Through an installation adapting the iconic building in the two-part work Mitreißendes Spektakel, Studie #1 und #2 and the display of extensive archival material, Draper traces the building’s ambivalent history and Johnson’s contradictory, at times ideologically driven biography.

Part of the exhibition
Memory Is a Strange Bell

Until May 3, 2026
Tue–Sun 12–6 pm / Thu 12–8 pm
@neuerberlinerkunstverein
Nadja Buttendorf, Markus Draper, Martin Eberle, Noi Fuhrer, Shaun Motsi, Leonie Nagel

Until May 17, 2026
Wed–Sun 2–7 pm
@kuenstlerhaus.bethanien
İpek Burçak, Olga Monina, Ania Nowak, Niclas Riepshoff, Max Schaffer, Alina Schmuch, Antje Taubert, Sergio Zevallos

The exhibition is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein is supported by the Kriket Foundation.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k. gGmbH is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

© Photos: n.b.k. / Jens Ziehe (1–2, 4–5) / Victoria Tomaschko (3)

#neuerberlinerkunstverein #memoryisastrangebell @markusdraperstudio #nbkberlin taken in Neuer Berliner Kunstverein by @markusdraperstudio

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6 months ago

Thank you for the review @thecolumbist by Beatrice Sacco:

"...The artworks, presented at both locations, reflect on the contradictions that lie in our experience of reality. Reunited under the title Memory is a Strange Bell, borrowed from a letter written by American poet Emily Dickinson, the exhibitions are an exploration of memory as an ambivalent and dynamic space, where good and bad cohabit.

Particularly poignant on this matter is the installation at n.b.k. by Markus Draper, dedicated to the Glass House created by the renowned architect Philip Johnson. The building is analyzed through various points of view: from its correlation to the beginning of postwar American modernism to its darkest reflections. The architect, who was in fact linked to Fascism and witnessed WWII in Europe as a war correspondent, cited the ruins of a burning city as the source of inspiration for the house he designed. The terrible reference thus becomes a way to reflect on society’s ambivalence and on the tension it creates. ..."

Photography: Jens Ziehe @neuerberlinerkunstverein
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#neuerberlinerkunstverein
#berlin #berlinexhibition #artreview
#intheshadowoftheglasswall
#memoryisastrangebell
#modernarchitecture #contemporaryart
#markusdraperstudio
#markusdraper by @markusdraperstudio

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6 months ago

Surprising selection of older work... on view from now on @skd.museum:
"Kunstkammer Gegenwart III" – Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann in dialog with the collection of Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden. (my work contributed by @kupferstichkabinett.skd)
"...You are looking at works that explore the many different paths of abstraction. Their reference to the world of objects remains visible. Some works play with references back to figuration, while others leave us wondering whether they are art or rather utilitarian objects of unclear purpose. Yet others, such utilitarian objects — water taps, rubber hoses, or caviar — are used to create abstract compositions. Some works employ the method of cartography to create an abstract representation of the concrete world, be it bodies, a city, or processes."
With works from Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragest, Isa Genzken, Keith Haring, Georg Herold, Olaf Holzapfel, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Julie Mehretu, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Scheibitz, Jorinde Voigt, Christopher Wool a.o.
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#schenkungsammlunghoffmann
#markusdraperstudio #markusdraper by @markusdraperstudio

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6 months ago

For Markus Draper (*1969 in Görlitz), houses often serve as a starting point, acting as repositories of complex and contradictory histories. This new work is based on long-term research into the Glass House (1949), the iconic residence in Connecticut designed by Philip Johnson (1906-2005). Johnson is considered one of the most important architects of the postwar period, and the house he designed for his own use became an icon of American modernism. The transparent structure consists of a single room containing a large dark-red brick cylinder that accommodates a fireplace and the bathroom. Johnson first revealed the source of inspiration for this unusual architectural element in a 1950 article in Architectural Review, stating that the motif and form of the brick cylinder were based on a burned-down village. In a foreword about Johnson, the architect Peter Eisenman questioned this statement: "Who would build a house as a metaphorical ruin?" Johnson's work as a war correspondent during World War II and his embrace of fascist ideology are not mentioned in such contexts.
Through an installation adapting the iconic building in the two-part work Mitreißendes Spektakel, Studie #1 und #2 and the display of extensive archival material, Draper traces the building's ambivalent history and Johnson's contradictory, at times ideologically driven biography.
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"Memory Is a Strange Bell"
with works by Nadja Buttendorf, Markus Draper, Martin Eberle, Noi Fuhrer, Shaun Motsi, Leonie Nagel.
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Mar 14 – May 3, 2026
Opening: March 13, 2026, 7 pm
@neuerberlinerkunstverein
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#neuerberlinerkunstverein #kuenstlerhausbethanien #memoryisastrangebell #intheshadowoftheglasswall #philipjohnsonglasshouse #markusdraperstudio #markusdraper by @markusdraperstudio

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7 months ago

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7 months ago

Wohnkomplex. Kunst und Leben im Plattenbau. Kuratiert von @kitonedo und ausgestellt in @dasminsk

Verwendete Arbeiten von Künstlern:
@markusdraperstudio
Karl-Heinz Adler
@kurkhaus_mueller
@sabine_moritz_r

Musik: Einstürzende Neubauten - Architektur ist Geiselnahme

Foto & Stopmotion:
@fogg_films taken in DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam by @markusdraperstudio

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8 months ago

… with a full scale set into the new year…
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#upcomingshow
#newwork
#miniatureset
#landscapemodeling
#intheshadowoftheglasswall
#memoryisastrangebell
#modernarchitecture
#markusdraperstudio
#markusdraper by @markusdraperstudio

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9 months ago