How do we go about designing our future and being conscious of our past? How to lay the foundations for a sustainable world? And what does it mean to live in a present that is trans-cultural through and through? Read our voices editorial. More

18. September 2024 — Read / Article
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ostZone - Bela Álvarez

The "ostZONE" series, part of the special exhibition "Revolutionary Romances? Global Art Histories in the GDR", created a space within the Albertinum for anyone to share conversations, questions, and memories of life in the GDR and in modern-day eastern Germany. Bela Álvarez organized the "Holding the Strings" ("Die Fäden in der Hand halten") workshop, bringing the power of images as well as the power of our hands into focus.

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13. September 2024 — Watch / Video
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Ortsgespräche ("Local Conversation"): The Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann in Dialogue with Prösitz

With the “Ortsgespräche” series, the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann is making itself available for art locations in the so-called rural areas of Saxony, where the diversity and social relevance of contemporary art is sometimes discussed with particular vehemence. The Hoffmann Collection has cooperated with the rural village Prösitz and the female artists working on the Künstlergut (artist's estate) Prösitz, where they produced thought-provoking art concerned with the A14 freeway that dominates the local resident's day-to-day lives.

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11. September 2024 — Read / Article
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ostZone - Hung The Cao

The "ostZONE" series, part of the special exhibition "Revolutionary Romances? Global Art Histories in the GDR", created a space within the Albertinum for anyone to share conversations, questions, and memories of life in the GDR and in modern-day eastern Germany. Read about Hung The Cao and his workshop with contemporaries "Jeans nach Dienstschluss" ("Jeans after Hours").

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27. August 2024 — Read / Article
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Going behind the Iron Curtain. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) in Japan

Relations between Japan and the GDR are as deep as they are unexplored. The two countries had built up a multi-layered relationship with each other. Japan was seen as an economic bridge between the GDR's socialist system and the capitalist West. How did the GDR and Japan find ways to exchange art across the Iron Curtain?

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