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Crossing the boundaries between art and architecture

Crossing the boundaries between art and architecture

For 21 years now, the actors of OSA - office for subversive architecture - have been unsettling perception in the field of tension between architecture, design, performance, video and sound art. Their installations were to be seen at the Goethe-Institut and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The silver banana on the Brandenburg Gate in commemoration of German reunification remained a virtual concept, but above all, OSA magically transforms seemingly insignificant places in the city into spaces of exciting potentials.


OSA belong to the pioneers who, as boundary crossers between the disciplines, have established architecture internationally as a socially relevant art form, but who nonetheless have remained outsiders in the art scene. It is therefore no wonder that the next generation looks to OSA as a role model: thus the British architects' group Assemble, who were distinguished in 2015 with the Turner Prize, Great Britain's most prestigious art award.