Tom Sachs' Nutsy's, a major new installation, makes its European premiere at the Deutsche Guggenheim, in what will be the American artist's first solo exhibition in Europe. The installation, which has been specially reconfigured for the Deutsche Guggenheim, is a 400 square metre theme park originally commissioned from the artist by the Bohen Foundation and recently exhibited in New York.
Nutsy's is made up of sculptural, mechanical and video elements connected by a roadway running the length and breadth of the installation. But Nutsy's is also an allusion to the incorrigible bricoleur in the person of the artist Tom Sachs. He and his team have dreamed up a room-filling creation whose elements are culture, consumerism and irony. Security cameras connected to video monitors survey the scene as visitors move around the racetrack, marvelling at remote-controlled model cars zooming past 1:25 scale reproductions of Le Corbusier's architecture, furniture by Mies van der Rohe, and other elements which include a McDonald's restaurant, a 10,000-watt boom box, and a DJ station. Tom Sachs' Nutsy's entices visitors into this complex and chaotic world in which the idealistic modernism of Le Corbusier coexists with the commercial modernism of McDonalds-inviting viewers to navigate it for themselves.

Curators

John G. Hanhardt, Maria-Christina Villaseñor
Guggenheim Museum NY

Location

Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin

Opening hours

Daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays to 10 p.m.

Catalogue

The exhibition is accompanied by a soft-cover book in German and English with essays by Glenn O'Brien and John G. Hanhardt with Maria-Christina Villaseñor. Price: € 39.

Admission

Adults		€ 3
Reduced Rate		€ 2
Children under 12		Admission free
School classes		Admission free
School classes with guided tours		€ 25
Groups up to 20		€ 25
Family Card		€ 8
Mondays		Admission free

Guided tours

Free Guided tours: Daily at 6 p.m.
Lunch Lectures: Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (Guided tours on selected themes followed by a small lunch)
Keynote Tours: Sundays at 11.30 a.m. (Guided tours on special themes followed by brunch)

Special guided tours, tours in foreign languages, and tours for schoolchildren are available. Please call (030) 20 20 93-14

art shop

700 articles ranging from catalogues to toys and art books for children; innovative design from Berlin and articles from the Guggenheim Museum stores in Bilbao, New York and Venice.
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Café

KAFFEEBANK
Drinks, brunch/snacks: varying menu

Public transport to the exhibition

Subway Stadtmitte (U2) or Französische Straße (U6)
S-Bahn Unter den Linden (S1, S2) or Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75)
Bus No.100, 200, 348
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