Drawings by the Gegenwind painting group
The Gegenwind counselling centre has been operating in Berlin since 1998. It offers counselling and assistance to people who are still suffering from the consequences of trauma experienced during the SED dictatorship. Services include psychosocial counselling, therapeutic discussion groups and body-based methods such as yoga.
Image gallery
Zeichnung der Malgruppe
An important component is the therapeutic painting group, which has been in existence since 2007. It is about artistic and creative expression of experiences – including those that cannot be put into words. Figurative and abstract techniques open up individual ways of processing these experiences.
The exhibition shows works by the five active members of the painting group. They have developed their own style. In this way, they impressively convey their confrontation with their own past, how they deal with it in the present and their view of the future.
Programme
- Welcome: Dr Bettina Effner, Berlin Wall Foundation
- About the work of Gegenwind: Wiebke Jacobs, Gegenwind counselling centre
- Contemporary witness Anna Haase in conversation, moderated by Dr Sarah Bornhorst, Berlin Wall Foundation
- Musical accompaniment with barrel organ and saxophone
Free admission
Registration requested:
Dieses Unwahrscheinliche ist nicht darstellbar: Anmeldung für Veranstaltung | Berlin Wall Foundation
Exhibition from 10 December until 8 March 2026:
Dieses Unwahrscheinliche ist nicht darstellbar | Stiftung Berliner Mauer
Visitor Centre of the Berlin Wall Memorial
Tuesday to Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
