The Consequences of the Post-1989/1990 Transformation for the Art World
During this symposium, contemporary witnesses of the 1990s and cultural actors who are active today will come together to share their experiences and engage in a mediated exchange about continuities and ruptures. Commemorating the 35th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, it will reflect on how the post 1989/1990 transformations were experienced both individually and collectively.
What was lost? Where was the integration of two systems productive? What influence do the persisting economic structures have? Is there an East German art scene today? And if so, what characterizes it? How is the institutional art scene in the East organized? And how visible are curators and artists with an Eastern biography in institutions? Departing from these questions, the symposium at Hamburger Bahnhof, whose building was located directly next to the Berlin Wall during the division of Germany, aims to create networks and formulate concrete wishes and ideas for the future.
Impulse: "Become annoying competition?" The situation of art academies in the eastern part of Berlin after 1989
Dr Angelika Richter, Rector, weißensee academy of art berlin
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1 – 2 pm: Break
Impulse: On the artistic practice of Andrea Pichl, Via Lewandowsky and Pham, Minh Duc
Dr Sven Beckstette, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Panel:
3:30 – 4 pm: Break
Impulse: On the foundation of the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
Franciska Zólyom, Director of the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
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Moderation: Tanja Samrotzki
The symposium is public and can be attended for free without registration. The event will be held in German; simultaneous translation into English will be provided on site.
The symposium was conceived by Till Fellrath, co-director Hamburger Bahnhof, Gabriele Knapstein, deputy director Hamburger Bahnhof, and Sven Beckstette, curator Hamburger Bahnhof, with the freelance art historian and journalist Sarah Alberti.
A symposium with the support of Carsten Schneider, Minister of State for East Germany and Equivalent Living Conditions in co-operation with the ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungenin co-operation with the ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for the New Federal State and The Federal Agency for Civic Education