POINT OF NO RETURN—a group show at the Museum der bildenden Künste—looks at the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR, “and the radical change of East German society.”
“The exhibition incorporates the immediate history as much as it does the period of post-1989 transformation, illuminating the ‘cracks in the Wall’ that had already existed in the 1980s and the reasons for their emergence. It also addresses the unexpected fall of the Wall and the redefinition of artistic purpose in the time of social revolution. The exhibition is not limited to a subculture of East German artists and instead showcases work by the ‘Remainers,’ the ‘Rebels and Refomers,’ and the ‘Dissidents’ who bade farewell to the GDR before its collapse, as well as the ‘Next Generation.’*
Through November 3.
Museum der bildenden Künste
Katharinenstrasse 10, Leipzig.
Point of No Return, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, 2019, from top: Cornelia Schleime, Untitled (Horizontebilder), 1985–86, Sammlung Leo Lippold, courtesy and © the artist; Norbert Wagenbrett, Aufbruch, 1990, Kunstarchiv Beeskow, photograph by Andreas Kämper, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019; Lutz Friedel, Adler (Die Brüder), 1989, private collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019; Hans Ticha, Der Agitator (Rufer), 1988, Galerie Läkemäker, Berlin, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019; Hans Winkler, Konstruktive Beschwörung, 1991, Estate of Hans Winkler, Chemnitz, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019; Wasje Götze, Die reizende Mauer, 1988, private collection, courtesy and © the artist; Jürgen Schäfer, Ich und Ich (I), 1980, private collection, courtesy and © the artist; Trak Wendisch, Zungenabschneider, 1988, private collection, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019. All images—except Norbert Wagenbrett, Aufbruch—photographed by InGestalt/Michael Ehritt.
