"The galvanised objects from the series “Square Tubes [Series D]” (1967), the most famous group of works by the artist Charlotte Posenenske, who died in 1985, stand around somewhat forlornly. She had already left the art world in 1968 to study sociology. Posenenske’s conclusion at the time was that artistic work could not bring about social change. A few years ago, she was honoured with an extensive retrospective at the Dia Art Foundation in New York. Her works are represented in many prominent collections (Daimler, Deutsche Bank) and have been shown extensively in Berlin, where Mehdi Chouakri Gallery manages her estate. Recently, for example, they could be seen in the show “Ways of Seeing Abstraction” in the Palais Populaire, the exhibition house of the Deutsche Bank, which closed in February. Nevertheless, Posenenske's work is the flagship first presentation in a twelve-month “pilot project” with which the Center for Contemporary Art Berlin (CCA), founded by Fabian Schöneich, recently launched their programme. (Not that there isn’t already a “centre for contemporary art” with a distinctly Berlin flavour in the form of the KINDL – housed in the giant complex of the former Kindl brewery, developed by the Basel collector couple Salome Grisard and Burkhard Varnholt.)"