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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin;VALUE=DATE:20200320
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin;VALUE=DATE:20201001
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URL:https://kulturaktiv.org/en/events/%d1%87%d1%82%d0%be-%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%b
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SUMMARY:"Что делать?" - Lenin between hop and pop
DESCRIPTION:"I can't walk past any Lenin without taking a picture." This is
  what the Polish writer Andrzej Stasiuk writes in his novel "The East". An
 d so it is today - with some historical distance - for many who were born 
 in the countries of the Eastern Bloc between the war and the fall of the W
 all. At the time when socialism still existed in reality\, the figure of L
 enin was omnipresent. He was simply there\, as it seemed: "always". It was
  easy to ignore him. But\, Stasiuk asks himself: "Haven't I noticed the sh
 adow in which we lived?"\n\nThe association Kultur Aktiv takes the upcomin
 g 150th birthday of Lenin as an occasion for an exhibition\, in which very
  different approaches to the handling of the preserved Lenin statues are s
 hown. The canon of photographic works on display ranges from the classic L
 enin Museum in his native Ulyanovsk\, to parks for Soviet sculptures in Ru
 ssia\, Ukraine\, Hungary and Lithuania\, to a series on "Leninopad"\, the 
 fall of the Lenin monuments in Ukraine. In addition\, various positions on
  the history of the Dresden Lenin monument will be shown together for the 
 first time. But why do we need an exhibition on Lenin today?\n\nAs leader 
 of the October Revolution and founder of the Soviet Union\, Lenin is one o
 f the most formative political figures of the 20th century. Since Stalin w
 as assigned sole responsibility for the Soviet repressive system\, the pol
 itical purges\, the gulag's\, the millions of dead after his death\, Lenin
  could be elevated to an "icon" of the communist world system. Everywhere 
 in the Soviet Union and in the countries of the Eastern Bloc thousands of 
 statues of the communist revolutionary leader were created.\n\nWith the co
 llapse of socialism\, now 30 years ago\, the statues of Lenin disappeared 
 from public space in almost all countries of the former Eastern Bloc. With
  the collapse of the Soviet Union\, this process continued with the "decom
 munization" in the republics that regained their independence. Only in Rus
 sia\, Belarus and Transnistria did the Lenin monuments remain largely inta
 ct.\n\nWith the same vehemence and forgetfulness of history as Lenin was o
 nce glorified\, people now tried to get rid of his memory. His monuments w
 ere lifted from their pedestals or toppled. Then they were to disappear qu
 ickly\, were smashed\, buried or sold. But can history and memory be smash
 ed\, buried or sold?\n\nBetween "hop" - the suppression or forgetting of h
 istory - and "pop" - the renewed glorification of the figure of Lenin - th
 e historical distance today offers various possibilities for dealing with 
 his work from new perspectives. "Что делать?" - "What to do?" The
  way its monuments are treated can also be reassessed with the historical 
 knowledge gained in recent decades.\n\nWith photos by Niels Ackermann (CH)
 \, Aleksandr Sinelnikov (UA)\, Elena Pagel (RU/D)\, Matthias Rietschel (D)
 \, Matthias Schumann (D)\, Lothar Sprenger (D) and Jan Oelker (D)\, who cu
 rated the exhibition\, as well as documentations of two projects\, initiat
 ed by the Munich sculptor and media artist Rudolf Herz (D) with the Lenin 
 monument from Wiener Platz in Dresden\, this exhibition provides a visual 
 plea for a differentiated examination of Lenin's historical figure - neith
 er "hop" nor "pop".
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition
LOCATION:Galerie nEUROPA\, Bautzner Straße 49\, Dresden\, 01099\, Germany
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