Potsdam
Hasso Plattner opens new Minsk Kunsthaus
Hasso Plattner, co-founder of the IT company SAP and patron, has a passion for art. Works from his private collection are also on display in his new museum. photo
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What used to be a popular restaurant in the heart of Potsdam is now a museum. Hasso Plattner’s “Minsk” art house will be a new place for encounters between modern and contemporary art.
GDR art in the former terrace restaurant: After two years of renovations, the new art house “Das Minsk” was opened on Saturday by the foundation of art patron and entrepreneur Hasso Plattner.
Works from the former GDR, which are part of the Hasso Plattner art collection, are shown there as well as contemporary art. The 3200 admission tickets for the opening weekend were quickly sold out.
The exhibition building was built in the 1970s and was a popular destination in Potsdam as the “Minsk” restaurant in the GDR. A restaurant was operated there for a few years in the Federal Republic. After that the house fell into disrepair. In 2019, Plattner’s foundation acquired the building to refurbish it and open it to the public.
Until mid-January, visitors can see exhibitions by Wolfgang Mattheuer entitled “The Neighbor Who Wants to Fly” and “Potsdam Allotment Gardens” by Stan Douglas – they are intended to illuminate the subject of landscape from different perspectives.