ARTISTS
Wohnkomplex: Art and Life in Plattenbau
06 Sep, 2025 - 08 Feb, 2026
The plattenbau was originally the heart of social policy in the GDR, a place of socialization and a symbol of real socialist progress鈥攗ntil 1989. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, it became the scene of painful transformations and a symbol of social decline and racist violence. As ruins, the buildings waited to be demolished, renovated, or converted. How are East German plattenbau housing estates dealt with in art? This question is the focus of the group exhibition Wohnkomplex: Art and Life in Plattenbau by guest curator Kito Nedo at DAS MINSK from fall 2025. The exhibition will present installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and films that were created between the 1970s and the present day. The plattenbau has never become a monument but has remained a living presence. It is a place of GDR remembrance where life continues.
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The plattenbau was originally the heart of social policy in the GDR, a place of socialization and a symbol of real socialist progress鈥攗ntil 1989. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, it became the scene of painful transformations and a symbol of social decline and racist violence. As ruins, the buildings waited to be demolished, renovated, or converted. How are East German plattenbau housing estates dealt with in art? This question is the focus of the group exhibition Wohnkomplex: Art and Life in Plattenbau by guest curator Kito Nedo at DAS MINSK from fall 2025. The exhibition will present installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and films that were created between the 1970s and the present day. The plattenbau has never become a monument but has remained a living presence. It is a place of GDR remembrance where life continues.
Artists on show
- Christian Thoelke
- Gisela Kurkhaus-Müller
- Harald Metzkes
- Henrike Naumann
- Karl-Heinz Adler
- Kurt Dornis
- Manfred Butzmann
- Manfred Pernice
- Markus Draper
- Nathalie Valeska Schüler
- Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
- Peter Herrmann
- Robert Seidel
- Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
- Sabine Moritz
- Sebastian Jung
- Seiichi Furuya
- Sibylle Bergemann
- Sonya Schönberger
- Stephen Willats
- Uwe Pfeifer
- Wenke Seemann
- Wolfram Ebersbach
