[Images of art]

Art

A selective competition was organized in order to attract designs from ten internationally renowned artists, which were then taken under consideration as possible artistic contributions to the organization of certain spaces within the Bundesrat building.

Rebecca Horn

The artist Rebecca Horn has enriched the space of the lobby with her installation „Three Graces“. Three rods, shining with the dull gleam of gold, turn or float slowly, one in each of the apertures of the lobby’s three domes, establishing a link between this interior space and the greater space outside. Blue rings of light at the altitude of the lobby’s ceiling appear reflected in the dancing rods. A mirror above the dome apertures, and another some fifteen metres below, in the middle of the lobby floor, reflect this light back and forth into infinity.

Per Kirkeby

Trust and dialogue between the artist and the body commissioning him – these were, for Per Kirkeby, the necessary preconditions for the realization of his work. Without ever presenting a completed model, the artist succeeded in convincing, in three letters, the Bundesrat’s advisory committee on art of the importance of his ideas. He created six studies of heads in bronze on the roofs of the lateral wings and two magnificent plaques, in the same material, on the doors of the building’s central section. Kirkeby addresses indeed the historical past of the building but strikes in his work, in place of the martial allegories familiar from the era of Kaiser Wilhelm, a note clearly recognizable as contemporary.