Helgoland, the only German deep-sea island, was bombed and blown up by the Allied forces to form a lunar landscape. The unified reconstruction, under the supervision of Otto Bartning, is a unique witness to the architecture of the late 1950s. Not Bilbao, rather the completion of the spatial figure of the streets and squares in the existing plan is more appropriate here. The DKM Foundation always seeks to relate individual works from its collection beyond their regional, cultural and temporal boundaries. To this end, we have sketched out a kind of large two-storey apartment for art, rich in differently characterised spaces. The holiday apartments above secure the museum's operation: "Double aspect maisonette apartments" like small galleries for living.

Museum DKM Helgoland
Stiftung DKM, Duisburg
Project, 2007

Nahoko Hara, Zeno Vogel
with Anne Kaestle
Collaborator: Nina Larcher