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Column, arch, rotunda and staircase – Austrian star architect Hans Hollein sought not only to produce a building from basic architectural shapes, but simultaneously to create a work of art. As in Mönchengladbach, where from 1972 to 1982 his design for Museum Abteiberg was realised. As home to numerous works of avant-garde art, it is considered one of the most striking museums of postmodernism today, in which artistic space and spatial art merge into one. In her research project funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, architectural historian Dr. Eva Branscome examines how in Hans Hollein’s designs architecture and exhibition practice come together.