With over 45,000 works, the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BLMK), with its locations in Cottbus and Frankfurt (Oder), houses the world's most comprehensive museum collection of art from the GDR and subsequent artistic traditions. This resource must be responsibly preserved, expanded, and researched, exhibited, and interpreted at a high level. To this end, the collection is placed in supra-regional and international temporal, geographical, social, cultural, and, above all, art historical contexts through rotating exhibitions.
The BLMK was formed in 2017 from the merger of the dkw. Art Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus and the Museum of Young Art Frankfurt (Oder). At the two locations, comprising a total of three exhibition spaces, several presentations are shown simultaneously. The changing exhibition program, with up to 24 exhibitions per year, is closely linked to the collection – art from the GDR and derived East German traditions are presented on an equal footing with nationally relevant and internationally established artistic positions. In addition, there is an extensive supporting program of events and museum education activities.
