Dalí – The Exhibition at Potsdamer Platz is a private museum owned by Carsten Kollmeier that was on view in Berlin from 2009 to 2021. Works by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí were on display. The museum opened on February 5, 2009.
Emergence
Dalí - The exhibition was
first opened in 2001 in cooperation with the state of
Baden-Württemberg in Schwetzingen Castle under the patronage of the
then Minister of Finance of the state and the Spanish Consul
General. It then went on tour in Germany and was shown in 2002 in
cooperation with Difa (today Union Investment) at the Chilehaus in
Hamburg. In 2006 Dalí - The Exhibition was shown for the first time
in Berlin. At that time it was a temporary exhibition in the Dom
Aquarée in Berlin-Mitte. From 2007 to 2008 it was re-staged in the
western part of the city on Kurfürstendamm in the former Vienna film
stage on approx. 4,000 m². The good response from visitors and the
growing demand meant that the representative of the lenders and
initiator Carsten Kollmeier looked for a permanent location in the
cultural metropolis of Berlin for a permanent museum exhibition and
found it in rooms on Leipziger Platz. The museum was open to the
public from February 5, 2009 to December 20, 2021. A reopening at a
different location is planned.
Factories
The exhibits in the exhibition come from private collections from
all over the world. A total of 3000 works are available to the
curator and initiator Carsten Kollmeier. Over 450 pieces from this
pool are shown in the exhibition rooms, which change at regular
intervals. These are exclusively originals, ranging from graphics
such as woodcuts, drypoint etchings and lithographs to illustrated
books, sculptures and three-dimensional installations to working
documents and film sequences. Dalí's first lithographic work, Don
Quixote de la Mancha, is on display, as are the woodcuts of Dante's
Divine Comedy and the sculpture of the Surrealist Angel.