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The exhibition trilogy “The Architecture of Deception / Confinement / Transformation” presents diverse artistic standpoints at the intersection of art and architecture. Each of the three parts links directly to the evolving history of the building, which was originally built as a camouflaged air-raid shelter during the Second World War, then used as a postwar internment camp, and finally converted into a residential and office building in 2010. This third and final part of the trilogy, entitled The Architecture of Transformation, takes inspiration from the recent conversion of the building and looks at architectural transformation in the context of broader social discourses.

An archive wall placed centrally in the exhibition offers historical documentation material, which, in dialogue with the exhibited works of art, activates the bunker as a dynamic, architectural building in the course of time. It invites visitors to think about the importance of architecture as the bearer and companion of history, which keeps showing us our weaknesses, strengths, stupidities and successes, all unembellished and unfiltered.