Filmic Perspectives on Berlin Around 1990
35 years after the end of the division of Germany, the Stadtmuseum Berlin has dedicated a large scale film exhibition in the Museum Nikolaikirche to the upheavals in Berlin around 1990.
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Mann auf Brücke mit S-Bahn-Eingang blickt über eine Baustelle auf eine Brücke
Short documentary films, as well as excerpts from film and television span a period of four decades, affording rare insight into the far-reaching changes of this era. Above all in East Berlin, people experienced a storm of seemingly contradictory events. On the one hand, self-empowerment and new freedoms arose, not to mention the promise represented by the market economy. On the other hand, uncertainty prevailed, as did the threat of unemployment, and of violence directed against those who were perceived not to belong. At the same time, the exhibition includes artists who investigate those years from today’s perspective. They look at the spatial and societal ruptures and continuities between then and now in a city that, perhaps more than any other, represents the political history of Europe in the 20th century.
Visitor information: Please note that an organ rehearsal on Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. may affect the acoustics of the special exhibition.
With films by:
Juliet Bashore | Kerstin Bastian | Konstanze Binder, Lilly Grote, Ulrike Herdin, Julia Kunert | Ludger Blanke | Tsitsi Dangarembga | Jochen Denzler, Lew Hohmann, Petra Tschörtner, Hans Wintgen | Johann Feindt, Jeanine Meerapfel, Helga Reidemeister, Dieter Schumann, Tamara Trampe | Nele Güntheroth, Thomas Hahn | Kerstin Honeit | Brenda Akele Jorde | Riki Kalbe | Ingo Kratisch, Jutta Sartory | Betina Kuntzsch | Angelika Nguyen | Pınar Öğrenci | Helga Reidemeister | Pim Richter, Karl Farber | Elske Rosenfeld | Bernd Sahling | Volker Sattel | Viola Stephan | Petra Tschörtner | Chetna Vora
- Curated by Florian Wüst in collaboration with Suy Lan Hopmann
- Scenography: HMDMR [hamdemir], Bahadir Hamdemir
- Media production: PxB Studios, Jana Pausinger, Alexander Bartneck
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication, edited by Elke Neumann.
In cooperation with Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
With the friendly support of Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and PROGRESS Film
In addition to the programme of events at the Museum Nikolaikirche, an accompanying film series will take place in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Büro für Dramaturgie, Gropius Bau, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) and Stadtteilzentrum KREATIVHAUS on the Fischerinsel.
