Beyond Borders

Artistic Internationalism in East Germany

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  Su-Ran Sichling, Gelehrtensteine (1950), (1950), (1970), 2015, Detail, Waschbeton, Terrazzo Nussholz, Messing, Holz, Gummi

• Su-Ran Sichling, Zaun (altrosa), Detail, 2021

• Mio Okido, Die Märtyrer, Detail, 2022, Gaze, Glas- und Acrylplatte

The temporary exhibition “Beyond Borders. Artistic Internationalism in East Germany” focuses on the international (cultural) political and artistic relations of the GDR with friendly socialist states and their after-effects in the present.
The exhibition opens up a differentiated spectrum in an interplay of artistic positions and archive materials: It ranges from the GDR’s official foreign cultural policy towards its friendly socialist states and liberation movements in Asia, Africa and the Americas to the (image) politics of intergraphics and the stories of migration and the associated (post-)migrant cultures of remembrance and transformations after 1989.
Individual experiences and collective history are conveyed in the exhibition through artistic works and groups of works by Maithu Bùi, Seiichi Furuya Mio Okido, Minh Duc Pham and Su-Ran Sichling. More information: humboldtforum.org.
Curator
The exhibition is curated by Kerstin Pinther, Kuratorin für Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst des Museums für Asiatische Kunst und des Ethnologischen Museums der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin.
curator for modern and contemporary art at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst and the  Ethnologisches Museumof the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

A temporary exhibition of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz in cooperation with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss and the artists Maithu Bùi, Seiichi Furuya, Mio Okido, Minh Duc Pham and Su-Ran Sichling as well as Sydney Hutchinson (Humboldt University).

Runtime: Thu, 03/10/2024 to Sun, 16/02/2025

Takes place here:

• Humboldt Forum