Overview
- Daniel Libeskind, who turns 80 on Tuesday, is the focus of a new Jüdisches Museum Berlin exhibition titled “Between the Lines.”
- The exhibition presents sketches, study models and photos that chart the Berlin museum project from concept to construction, and it runs until November 1.
- A highlight is the first public showing of his 1993 proposal for the former SS troop camp at Sachsenhausen, which envisioned flooding most of the site, planting a “forest of the dead,” and adding two bunker-like structures linked by a ramp.
- The display explains how Libeskind’s trademark zigzag plan, slotted windows and concrete “Voids” use disorientation and absence to evoke the rupture of Jewish life in Berlin.
- Coverage situates the reassessment within a wider career that spans the Ground Zero masterplan in New York, the wedge-like intervention at Dresden’s military museum, and the central building at Leuphana University, as Libeskind also voices sharp warnings about democratic backsliding under Trump and concern over the AfD.