1927
In 1927 Lissitzky designed a room specifically to display the work of leading abstract artists work, and named it the Abstract Cabinet or Cabinet of Abstraction (Kabinett der Abstrakten). The room was commissioned in 1927 by the curator (Alexander Dorner) of the Hannover Provincial Museum.
The cabinet comes as a close collaboration between the artist and art historian and curator Alexandre Dorner. Dorner believed in the need for new exhibition formats for abstract art which would include the possibility for the spectator to interact with the art works and the exhibition spaces.
The pavilion is a room of about 20 square metres built inside the galleries of the Museum, a modular and adaptable area conceived to host works by constructivist and abstract painters, among whom Piet Mondrian, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger as well as Mies van der Rohe and El Lissitzky himself.
