Food meets art

Glas Lennarz is integral to the Philara Collection: today’s museum café is housed in what was the grinding workshop of the former glass factory. Surrounded by artworks from the Collection, it serves delicious food and drink, as Bulle Bistro by day and in the evening as Weinbar by Bulle. Glimpses of our exhibitions can even be seen from the main bar counter.

Hanging above the bar is Nevin Aladağ‘s installation Colors (2011) – seven lamps by the iconic Danish designer Poul Henningsen, covered with coloured nylon tights that alter their effect, luminosity and colour. Close by, five vitrines containing 275 miniature chairs  by Andreas Schmitten are a nod to the role of the caféclientele. A provocative scene by Tobias Rehberger is installed opposite the bistro bar: Paul-Émile Bécat, Spaddy, 1938 IV (2015) comprises a wallpaper mural, a vase and a flower. The work draws on an erotic colour illustration from 1938 by French artist Paul Émile Bécat. The magnification and pixellated watercolour treatment of the large-scale scene means that the intimate acts depicted can only be clearly discerned through half-closed eyes or with the help of a mobile phone camera.

Homemade delights

The Bulle Bistro kitchen uses mainly seasonal and regional produce, sourced from local suppliers, including the Eggenhof in Neuss, while baked goods are from the neighbouring Bulle bakery. Visitors can enjoy the finest of bakery culture – including a Bulle speciality, ‘the best Rahmbrot in town’. The lemonade and kombucha iced tea are also homemade. Coffee beans are roasted in house – the aroma of coffee sometimes even drifts through into the exhibition space.

Terrace in the backyard

Behind the café is one of the finest sun terraces in the whole of Düsseldorf. Here, among flowers and blackberry bushes, is Olaf Metzel’s sculpture Kafka usw. (2016), a kind of oversized, crumpled newspaper page, reaching up towards the sky. After printing his aluminium sheet, Metzel worked on it so that it resembles a large-scale sheet of folded and creased paper. The artist himself describes his sculptures as ‘three-dimensional pictures’. Behind the blackberry bushes is a disused railway track, which once carried trains loaded with glass directly into what is today’s main exhibition hall.

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