CULTURE

Transformation

by Diane Solway

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Karen and Christian Boros, in their Berlin penthouse atop the bunker, with Olafur Eliasson’s Colour Experiment No. 10, 2010.

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The Boros bunker.

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Thomas Ruff’s Karen, 2013, in the Boroses’ penthouse.

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The penthouse living room.

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The entry to Boros Collection.

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A view of the penthouse’s interior.

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Karen Boros, with three of the 40 paintings by Elizabeth Peyton in the couple’s collection.

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Christian Boros’s Berlin offices.

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The artist and Schinkel Pavillon curator, Nina Pohl, with her cat, Olmo, in her 1957 Atrium house, designed by Arne Jacobsen and set inside Tiergarten park.

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The interior of Pohl’s bungalow, with sofas by the Campana Brothers.

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Inside the GDR-era Schinkel Pavillon, with a view of Goshka Macuga’s 2016 site-specific exhibition “Now This, Is This the End… the End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End? (Part 1).”

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The exterior of the transformed Brutalist church that now houses the Konig Galerie.

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An installation view of William Kentridge’s 2016 exhibition of prints at the Kewenig Galerie.

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The gallerist Justus Kewenig (with the narwhal horn that is part of 
James Lee Byars’s Unicorn Horn in the White Circle, 1984).

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Christian Boltanski’s The Work People of Halifax, 1995, 
a wall of rusty, labeled tin cans, installed inside the 
Kewenig warehouse and exhibition space.

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The gallerist 
Johann König.

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Installation view of Jorinde Voigt’s 2016 exhibition “Radical Relaxation,” at the Konig Galerie.