The West Did Not Have to Arrive in the East! Friday, 8 November 2024

The Consequences of the Post-1989/1990 Transformation for the Art World

Thomas Florschuetz, Ohne Titel (Palast) 53, 2006, Ausstellungsansicht „Nationalgalerie. Eine Sammlung für das 21. Jahrhundert“

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.
Programme on Friday, 8 November 2024
2 pm: Welcome
Till Fellrath, Co-Director of Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Greeting by patron Carsten Schneider, Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor and Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany
2:30 – 4 pm: Museums & Collections
Impulse: On the Dresden “Bilderstreit” (battle of images) and the consequences for the Albertinum
Hilke Wagner, Director of the Albertinum, Dresden State Art Collections
Panel:

Thomas Bauer-Friedrich, Director of the Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle (Saale)
Hilke Wagner, Director of the Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Dr Gabriele Knapstein, Deputy Director and Head of Collection Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin

4 – 4:30 pm: Break
4:30 – 6 pm: Art Market
Impulse: "Outsiders - Frontrunners" On the founding and development of the ASPN gallery in Leipzig since 2005
Arne Linde, gallery owner and founder of Galerie ASPN, Leipzig
Panel:

Elke Hannemann, Senior Director (Leipzig), Galerie EIGEN+ART, Berlin/Leipzig,
Arne Linde, gallery owner and founder of Galerie ASPN, Leipzig
Friedrich Loock, LOOCK Gallery (1988-2008 Galerie Wohnmaschine), Berlin

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

Price info: The symposium is public and can be attended for free without registration.

Next date:

• Date Friday, 08/November/2024 14:00 bis 18:00
• Venue Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
• Address Invalidenstraße 51, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten