From 2010 to 2018, Salon Dahlmann, named after Hildegard Dahlmann, the last owner of the house at Marburger Straße 3, presented art and cultural events. Since 2019, the presentation venue is now called Miettinnen Collection, after the art-savvy family that acquired the house in 2010. Since the age of 15, Timo Miettinen, chairman of EM Group Oy in Finland, has maintained a close connection with art. Together with his mother, he collected Finnish landscape paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2004, Timo Miettinen has added international contemporary art to the collection. The Miettinen Collection includes works by contemporary artists of different generations and nationalities. The collection includes abstract and representational painting, drawing and sculpture, such as a series of marble sculptures from Roman antiquity.
Artists:inside the collection include: Georg Baselitz, Amoako Boafo, Peppi Bottrop, Louise Bourgeois, Monica Bonvicini, André Butzer, William Copley, Matthias Dornfeld, Rainer Fetting, Bernard Frize, Günther Förg, Adrian Gheni, Luis Gordillo, Stefanie Gutheil, Peter Halley, Secundino Hernández, Leiko Ikemura, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Karin Kneffel, Matti Kujasalo, Heikki Marila, Kirsi Mikkola, Antti Laitinen, Jussi Niva, Albert Oehlen, A. R. Penck, Janne Räisänen, Aurora Reinhard, Anselm Reyle, Julian Röder, Helene Schjerfbeck, Barthélémy Toguo, Marianna Uutinen, Manolo Valdés, Franz West and Stanley Whitney.
The Miettinen Collection will be open to the public on Saturdays between noon and 6pm from September 2019, on request and by appointment. It is located on Marburger Straße in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
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