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| Boros Collection | |
|---|---|
| Name | Boros Collection |
| Established | 2008 |
| Location | Berlin, Germany |
| Type | Contemporary art collection and private museum |
| Director | Christian Boros |
Boros Collection The Boros Collection is a private contemporary art collection and exhibition space located in Berlin housed in a converted World War II bunker. The collection and its exhibition program have become prominent in international contemporary art circles, engaging with artists associated with Documenta, Venice Biennale, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art, and Centre Pompidou. The collection’s setting in a historic structure links it to Berlin sites such as Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Tempelhof, Alexanderplatz, and draws visitors from cultural institutions like Hamburger Bahnhof, Neue Nationalgalerie, Pergamonmuseum, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Berliner Philharmonie.
The collection was assembled by Christian Boros beginning in the early 2000s amid Berlin’s post-reunification cultural expansion centered on neighborhoods including Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Schöneberg, Charlottenburg, and institutions such as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Akademie der Künste, Kunst-Werke (KW), Berlinische Galerie, and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The conversion of the bunker by architects situates the project alongside adaptive reuse efforts like Zeche Zollverein, Tate Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, Kulturbrauerei, and the transformation of Berghain scenes into exhibition discourse. Over time the collection has collaborated with curators and artists associated with Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Anselm Kiefer, Olafur Eliasson, and groups linked to major exhibitions at SculptureCenter, Serpentine Galleries, Fondazione Prada, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
The structure is a reinforced concrete World War II bunker constructed in the 1940s near sites like Tempelhof Airport, Ostbahnhof, Spandau Citadel, Reichstag, and Brandenburg Gate, later adapted by designers influenced by projects such as Renzo Piano, Herzog & de Meuron, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, and David Chipperfield. The conversion into exhibition spaces involved interventions resonant with adaptive reuse exemplars including Tate Modern Switch House, Zeitz MOCAA, High Line, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Mori Art Museum, balancing heritage protections from agencies like Denkmalschutzamt and museum standards practiced by ICOM, ICOMOS, UNESCO, and German cultural bodies such as Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
The permanent holdings emphasize contemporary painting, sculpture, installation, video, and sound works by artists who have participated in Documenta, Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Manifesta, Berlin Biennale, Whitney Biennial, São Paulo Art Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, and exhibitions at MoMA PS1. Represented artists and works include practitioners connected to Marcel Duchamp lineages, conceptual trajectories from Joseph Beuys through On Kawara and Gerhard Richter, as well as younger cohorts linked to Karen Kilimnik, Erika Verzutti, Cindy Sherman, Andres Serrano, Elmgreen & Dragset, Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Hirschhorn, Isa Genzken, Danh Vo, Michael Heizer, Tino Sehgal, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pipilotti Rist, Ad Reinhardt, Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Ai Weiwei, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Jenny Holzer, Bruce Nauman, Dan Graham, Gillian Wearing, Olafur Eliasson, Katharina Grosse, Kendell Geers, Thomas Struth, Wolf Vostell, John Baldessari, Georg Baselitz, Andreas Gursky, Vezzoli, Sigmar Polke, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Cy Twombly, Jenny Saville, Lucio Fontana, Alexander Calder, Pipilotti Rist, and Stanley Brouwn. The collection also houses site-specific commissions and archival materials related to projects shown at Serpentine, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Museum Ludwig, Fondation Beyeler, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and KODE.
Exhibition cycles are curated in dialogue with curators and institutions such as Okwui Enwezor, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mohamed El Hakim, Bice Curiger, Massimiliano Gioni, Klaus Biesenbach, and collaboration partners including Haus der Kunst, Kunsthalle Basel, ICA London, MoMA, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and Serralves. Public programs have featured talks, performances, and screenings with participants from Berlin Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Documenta, Performa, DIFF, and artist residencies connected to Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Villa Massimo, and Cité internationale des arts. Educational and outreach efforts reference models from Guggenheim Bilbao, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, LACMA, Rijksmuseum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty.
Conservation practices follow guidelines promoted by ICOM, ICCROM, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bundesarchiv, and research collaborations involve scholars associated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, University of the Arts London, Courtauld Institute of Art, Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton University, Harvard University, Max Planck Society, and archives such as Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Projects include technical studies, provenance research, material analysis, and cataloguing in line with standards used by Getty Conservation Institute, Rijksmuseum Conservation Department, and Metropolitan Museum of Art conservation units.
The exhibition space operates by timed-entry bookings similar to practices at Tate Modern, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofía, Louvre, and Uffizi Galleries, with guided tours, accessibility services, and seasonal hours coordinated alongside local transport hubs Berlin Hauptbahnhof, S+U Warschauer Straße, U-Bahn stations, and cultural itineraries including Museum Island, East Side Gallery, Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer, Charlottenburg Palace, and Potsdamer Platz. Visitors often plan combined visits with exhibitions at Berliner Ensemble, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, and contemporary art fairs such as Art Basel, Frieze Art Fair, TEFAF, Art Cologne, and Berlin Art Week.
Category:Art museums and galleries in Berlin