Modernism is celebrating milestone birthdays and remains an object of fascination. Two Berlin-based artists have joint the exhibition rapport to show their contributions to the ongoing history of modernity at the Dresden Kulturpalast. They play with architectural space, deconstructing it and recombining it in new ways, as a dynamic collage or an image. They give an account of architecture and their time to discover forms and patterns, recurrence and deviation.


Alexa Kreissl is concerned with the built environment itself; she deconstructs architects’ creations. With narrow metal or wooden rods, she delineates spaces that are permeable and airy, under tension or balanced. Tim Trantenroth examines the aesthetics of series. He continuously transfers elements of the built environment into built images. The structures and surface patterns of late modernism from both East and West Germany are reproduced on transparent backgrounds. His work touches upon an era that has only recently passed, as well as upon fundamental questions about the design relationship between space and image, surface and depth.


Rapport is the first publication by the Center for Building Culture Saxony (ZfBK), which was opened in 2017 in the renovated Dresden Kulturpalast, itself one of the earliest examples of East German modernism.