Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin

For the architectural design of the Upper Hall, the Nationalgalerie commissioned the Japanese architect Toyo Ito. In collaboration with architects Florian Busch and Christoph Cellarius, Ito transformed Mies van der Rohe's glass shrine into an exciting space, a completely new experience in which art and architecture have melt in an unusual fusion. Following Mies' rigorous Cartesian logic, the three architects' project transformed the strictly homogeneous exhibition hall into a continuous yet subtly differentiated space where the thirteen artists exhibiting on the upper hall started interesting dialogues and so heightened the intensity of the exhibition's theme.

"Berlin - Tokyo / Tokyo - Berlin Die Kunst zweier Städte", Berlin, 2006. editors: Angela Schneider, Gabriele Knapstein, David Elliott u. a. 350 pages in German language, publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN 3-7757-1804-4

• Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte