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| Manuela Warstat | Berlin - Memento territories |  |
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Photography and Video. Exhibition, opening: March 2, 7 pm About Walter Benjamin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, the wall beside the river Spree and the Palast der Republik |
Exhibition till March 28, 2012 |
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Berlin turns 775 this year, and we are pleased to contribute a thematic reference to the anniversary through the eyes of an Afro-German artist. |
Disappearance as process. Starting in 1989, Manuela Warstat began working – alongside her painting – on a poetic documentation of the changes in the city at the center of her life. Auguststraße is one of many images of the resulting photographic series that will be shown in the exhibition. Dilapidation garnished with bullet holes. So, too, the Berlin Wall on the banks of the Spree, captured by Warstat on video. Over the course of two years, the artist was a witness to the dismantling and demolition of Berlin’s Palast der Republik on the former Schlossplatz. She documented a small, expressive series of this destructive process, compressed here for the exhibition. The dismantled monument of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels – or, the Marx-Engels-Forum – is closely related. The rapid changes in Tiergarten Süd, the artist’s neighborhood, and Schöneberg, the next neighborhood over, provoked an unusual response to a deceased neighbor. The built environment of Walter Benjamin’s former apartment in the Kurfürstenstraße portrays his surroundings. |
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The afrogerman artist was born Greifswald in Western Pomerania. She lives in Berlin and on the holm Hooge in the North Sea. |
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| Our site of the artist with links, photos and CV. |
| Page Aktuell with forthcoming exhibitions. |
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For 23 years, Galerie Peter Herrmann has provided artists with African roots a platform through which to build a global network. Trade show appearances and international collaborations along with five or six annual exhibitions in Berlin provide a cross-cultural context in which to discuss their multimedia works. As curator, Peter Herrmann has organized more than 300 exhibitions – in his own gallery space as well as in museums and at art associations – and has taken an active stand on cultural policy issues. In 1995, the gallery became Germany’s first to have an Internet presence. With over three million unique visitors and 20 million page views since, the website has become an important source of information. We have sponsored the training of interns and the advanced training of scholarly personnel. Learn more in texts, columns, press clippings and references |
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