Portikus
White cube gallery built behind the surviving columns of a bombed nineteenth-century library, on a river island.
This guide to Portikus in Frankfurt begins in 1987, when six weathered stone columns, the surviving entrance of a library destroyed in a 1944 air raid, had stood alone for over four decades before curator Kasper Konig built a plain white cube gallery against them. It follows Portikus through sixteen years and more than a hundred exhibitions on that spot, tied to students at the neighboring Stadelschule academy, and then its move on when the city finally rebuilt the library in 2003. Cross the Alte Brucke, Frankfurt's oldest bridge, to reach the gallery's current home on its small island in the river Main.
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