On April 30, 2005, the Kaufhof department store (formerly the Centrum Warenhaus) auctioned off part of its own facade on Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. The individual facade sections were presented in a stall on the square and sold by a professional auctioneer. Passersby showed little interest. Heike Klussmann joined the crowd and bid on the sections, thereby staging the actually occurring event.

Berlin 89/09: Art Between Traces of the Past and Utopian Futures at Berlins Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.

Heike Klussmann shows a selction of her work around the deconstroction of Alexanderplatz Berlin.

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