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History

Black and white photo: in the foreground, four children dressed in summer clothes are playing by a fountain. A boy stands on the edge of the fountain with his legs apart. In the background there is the former terrace restaurant Minsk.

The former terrace restaurant "Minsk" was built from 1971 to 1977 on Potsdam’s Brauhausberg in the modernist style of the GDR according to a design by the architects Karl-Heinz Birkholz and Wolfgang Müller.

History

ZEITEN

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ZEITEN is a dynamic platform for the history of the terrace restaurant “Minsk.” Despite their different functions, parallels can be drawn between the former restaurant and the present-day MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam. DAS MINSK remains a place of encounter, between people and with art. A focus of the institution is the encounter with art from the former GDR and contemporary art.

The MINSK team is always happy to receive contact from contemporary witnesses of the former terrace restaurant "Minsk" by mail or e-mail: zeiten@dasminsk.de.

ZEITEN

COLLECTION & FOUNDATION

Painting of a summer garden. On the left there is a dark wall of a wooden house with a blue bench in front of it, to the right there is a green meadow with individual colorful flowers and tall green trees.

The former terrace restaurant “Minsk”, built in the 1970s in the modernist style of the GDR, has become a place of encounter between modern and contemporary art—and between people. Artworks from the former GDR, which are part of the Hasso Plattner Collection, are shown here in new contexts. 

Collection & foundation

Contact

Max-Planck-Straße 17
14473 Potsdam

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Mon–Sat, 9am–5pm
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+49 331 236014-699

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