Opening | Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen

Admission is free, and there will be a musical performance as well as DJ sets on the summer terrace.

With around 150 works, the exhibition highlights the diversity of Stötzer’s experimental oeuvre and aims to serve as a catalyst for the long-overdue broader recognition of this pioneering artist.

For over five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has engaged with themes such as justice, self-determination, and gender. Her own body often plays a central role in this—not as an object, but as a site of resistance and feminist self-assertion.

Gabriele Stötzer’s artistic practice is inextricably linked to her social and political activism: In 1976, she was imprisoned in the GDR on charges of “defamation of the state” due to a petition campaign, after which she joined the literary and artistic underground and later co-founded the Erfurt Artists’ Group. Many of her works articulate radical counter-narratives to state repression and standardization by subverting boundaries and opening up space for vulnerability and longing.

Program:

• 7:00 p.m. Welcome
• 7:30–10:00 PM DJ sets by FRZNTE and Alissa