Public Art Houseball

3 macedonboy - 2 years ago

This modern art sculpture is called House Ball because it looks like a house that’s been rolled up, scrunched up into a ball. A fun and mildly amusing sculpture, but any hidden meaning escapes me.

1 Dmitry Pshenichnikov - 4 months ago

No value in this “sculpture”. To have any art value it lacks details and meaning.
For me it does not look like home wrapped in a ball, it looks like ball of trash. It does not resonate with anything it has around, just random dirty big waste of space, ruining city’s look.
Hopefully it would be transferred from the place it is standing no to some 90-s history place outside city center.

4 Robin Irwin - 2 years ago

This looks like a ball a dungbeetle left. Or, if you know the game 'Katamari Damacy' , you would think one was here. But, there is a different history behind it:

Houseball symbolically represents the exile's household and directly refers to the relief "Bohemian Immigrants" on the Friedrich Wilhelm I memorial in Berlin-Neukölln and the bundle carried there by a woman.

At the same time, it symbolizes the tolerance concept of the Prussian ruling house and the suffering of the Protestant exiles from Bohemia, who were driven out of their homeland due to their belief in 1737 and who settled in Böhmisch-Rixdorf (today Neukölln) with the permission of Friedrich Wilhelm I

3 BradJill - 4 years ago

For those who enjoy contemporary art and street art installations, the House Ball sculpture at Bethlehem Church Square is interesting to see.

Created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in 1997, this is a 11 meter tall Pop Art style installation. Its shape and form is that of roundish bundle that includes household items and is held together with rope. It is a provocative artwork with colours that help it stick out against the buildings in all directions.

You can see House Ball just a few minutes walk from Checkpoint Charlie and Friedrichstrasse in the Mitte District.

4 Rutger van der Linden - a year ago

Thoughtprovoking display symbolizing people's habitats being rolled up in a ball, like to be disposed of in the trash, to make way for new construction, or else symbolizing people being uprooted and left homeless, dragging their possessions from place to place. Intriguing.

5 Chinmaya Mahapatra (친마야마하파트라) - 2 years ago

Nice architecture.. Loreal Showroom near by..:)

5 Vedran - a year ago

So unique and beautiful