The Deutsche Guggenheim is an art museum, located in the ground floor of the Deutsche Bank

Deutsche Bank

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 building, a sandstone building constructed in 1920 on the Unter den Linden

Unter den Linden

Unter den Linden is a boulevard in the Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for its linden trees that line the grassed pedestrian mall between two carriageways....

 boulevard in Berlin

Berlin

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, Germany.

It is a unique cooperation between the Guggenheim Foundation

Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation

The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation is located at 950 Third Avenue in Manhattan.New York, NY 10022.-History:The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation was founded in 1924.Between 1930 and 1941 the foundation financed Robert H. Goddard...

 and the Deutsche Bank. The 3800 square feet (353 m²) exhibition space was designed by Richard Gluckman, an American architect. There are 3 or 4 exhibitions per year.

Exhibitions

Funded entirely by the Deutsche Bank, the museum’s primary purpose is to commission important new works by contemporary artists that will then enter the Guggenheim collection. At least once a year, one artist is presented with a new work which has been specifically created for the exhibition space. Commissions have in the past included paintings by James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist

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 and Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons

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, photos by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto

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 and Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

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 as well as large-scale installations by Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in...

, Hanne Darboven

Hanne Darboven

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, Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

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, Phoebe Washburn

Phoebe Washburn

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, and Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

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Based on a recommendation by Deutsche Bank’s Global Art Advisory Council which includes curators Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor

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, Hou Hanru, Udo Kittelmann, and Nancy Spector, since 2010 the bank every year honors a young artist who is featured in a large solo exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim.

• 1997: Robert Delaunay: Visions of Paris
• 1998: James Rosenquist: The Swimmer in the Econo-mist
• 1998: From Dürer to Rauschenberg. A Quintessence of Drawing. Masterworks of the Albertina and the Guggenheim
• 1998: Katherina Sieverding: Arbeiten auf Pigment
• 1998: After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959
• 1999: Andreas Slominski
• 1999: Georg Baselitz: Nostalgia in Istanbul
• 1999: Amazonen der Avantgarde: Exter, Gontscharowa, Popowa, Rosanowa, Stepanowa, Udalzowa
• 1999: Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light
• 2000: Sugimoto: Portraits
• 2000: Günther Förg: Deutsche Bank Collection
• 2000: LAWRENCE WEINER: NACH ALLES/ AFTER ALL
• 2000: Jeff Koons: Easyfun - Ethereal
• 2001: The Sultan's Sign: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Museum
• 2001: Neo Rauch: Deutsche Bank Collection
• 2001: On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell
• 2001: Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces
• 2002: Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day
• 2002: Kara Walker: Deutsche Bank Collection
• 2002: Eduardo Chillida - Antoni Tàpies
• 2002: Gerhard Richter: Eight Grey
• 2003: Kasimir Malewitsch: Suprematism
• 2003: Richard Artschwager: Up and Down/ Back and Forth. Deutsche Bank Colection
• 2003: Tom Sachs: Nutsy's
• 2003: Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience
• 2004: Miwa Yanagi: Deutsche Bank Collection
• 2004: Nam June Paik: Global Groove 2004
• 2004: Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition: Photographs and Mannerist Prints
• 2004: John Baldessari: Somewhere Between Almost Right and not Quite (With Orange)
• 2005: Jackson Pollock: No Limits, Just Edges
• 2005: Twenty five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection
• 2005: Douglas Gordon's The VANITY of Allegory
• 2005: Willliam Kentridge: Black Box/ Chambre Noire
• 2006: Hanne Darborven: Hommage à Picasso
• 2006: Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim
• 2006: Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On. Deutsche Bank Collection
• 2006: all in the present must be transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys
• 2007: Divisionism - Neoimpressionsm: Arcadia & Anarchy
• 2007: Affinities: New Acquisitions Deutsche Bank Collection - Deutsche Guggenheim 1997-2007
• 2007: Phoebe Washburn: Regulated Fool's Milk Meadow
• 2007: Jeff Wall: Exposure
• 2008: True North
• 2008: Freisteller - Villa Romana Fellows 2008: Dani Gal, Julia Schmidt, Asli Sungu, Clemens von Wedemeyer
• 2008: Collier Schorr: Freeway Balconies
• 2008: Anish Kapoor: Memory
• 2009: Picturing America. Fotorealism in the 1970s
• 2009: Imi Knoebel: ICH NICHT. New Works/ ENDUROS. Deutsche Bank Collection
• 2009: Abstraction and Empathy: Ablers, Buthe, Palermo, Schütte - Guston, Klee, Mondrian
• 2009: Julie Mehretu: Grey Area
• 2010: Utopia Matters
• 2010: Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven. Deutsche Bank presents the Artist of the Year 2010
• 2010: Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India
• 2010: Color Fields
• 2011: Agathe Snow: All Access World
• 2011: Yto Barrada Riffs. Deutsche Bank presents the Artist of the Year 2011
• 2011: Once Upon a Time: Fantastic Narratives in Contemporary Video. Francis Alys, Cao Fei, Pierre Huyghe, Aleksandra Mir, Janaina Tschäpe

History

In 1993, one year before the withdrawal of American troops from the city, Guggenheim's then-director Thomas Krens

Thomas Krens

Thomas Krens is the former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, and currently the Guggenheim's Senior Advisor for International Affairs, overseeing the completion of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi...

 was first approached with the idea of a Berlin branch of the museum by Richard C. Holbrooke, then the American ambassador to Germany. The museum opened in November 1997.