16.07.2016 — 26.07.2016
Voices of Dissent: Art on the GDR 1976-1989
Hanns Schimansky
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Hors les murs
Folding, graphit and India ink on prepared paper
21,5 × 29,4 in
Photograph by Bernd Kuhnert
Graphit, India ink on prepared folded paper
47,6 × 56,7 in
Photograph by Bernd Kuhnert
India ink on paper
19,8 × 25,4 in
Photograph by Bernd Kuhnert
Graphit, India ink on prepared folded paper
25,6 × 34,6 in
Photograph by Bernd Kuhnert
Chalk and India ink on prepared folded paper
33,7 × 39,8 in
Photograph by Bernd Kuhnert
Chalk, graphit and ink on prepared folded paper
33,5 × 39,8 in
Photograph by Bernd Kuhnert
India ink on folded handmade paper
17,3 × 21,7 in
Photograph by Bernd Kuhnert
This exhibition explores the relationships of dissident art and power in the GDR through a large number of representative works. Dissidence and critical distancing from the state apparatus took a great variety of artistic forms in the former socialist republic. This gathering of “other” art from the GDR asks how Germany’s recent history can be reappraised after decades of sterile East-West comparisons. Who are its real heroes? The exhibition will present the production of an active, dynamic and fearless network of assertive painters, poets, performers, actionists, Super8 filmmakers and jazz and rock musicians who looked for spaces of freedom beyond the reach of the state.
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