Isometries from the “Burrow” series, Underground bunker, Alexanderplatz Berlin

Views from the “Burrow” series, Underground bunker, Alexanderplatz Berlin

Beneath the Alexanderplatz lies one of Berlin’s biggest underground bunkers, built in 1941 out of a foundation block from the twenties. Heike Klussmann shows this subterranean structure beneath the Alexanderplatz in the Burrow series. It is no longer accessible because it is now serving as a foundation for the Saturn building that stands above it on the Alexanderplatz.

Photographs from the 94-part Burrow series, Underground Bunker, Alexanderplatz Berlin

Heike Klussmann glides beneath the Alexanderplatz into one of Berlin’s biggest underground bunkers, built in 1941 out of a foundation block from the twenties. This subterranean structure beneath the Alexanderplatz is no longer accessible, serving now as a foundation for the Saturn building that stands above it on the Alexanderplatz. The film is, on one hand, a document of the subterranean structure, on the other a fiction of appropriation: Like an animal or the “Princess of Persia” from the video game, Heike Klussmann glides through a warren of rooms, coming increasingly to inhabit this underground parallel world, in which gravity seems to be suspended.

BURROW, underground bunker, Alexanderplatz Berlin, 5.975-frame animation, 3:59 min., loop

Underground Bunker, Alexanderplatz Berlin
April 12, 2007, 2–3 p.m.

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Heike Klussmann – BAU
24.September - 29.Oktober

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