Dear cultural activists,
The contract workers, international trainees and students who came here during the GDR era are the second and third generation to live here. Their history and their present are not present. This is where ostZONE (in cooperation with the ethnologist Dr. Verena Böll and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dres) comes in: as an accompanying programme to the exhibition “Revolutionary Romances? Global Art Histories in the GDR” at the Albertinum, we are offering space for questions and shared remembrance – different life paths in the history of the GDR will be discussed. The Albertinum will become a place of encounter! Programme starts this week on Saturday!
Programme preview
Get to know and try out political art forms – such as mail art or screen printing – in workshops. Discussions with contemporary witnesses and city tours convey global perspectives, GDR life stories and (hidden) places outside the museum. Enjoy the contemporary witnesses and artists: Marí Emily Bohley and Julia Eberth, Hung Cao The and Vuong Tuan Hai, Moussa Mbarek and Janina Kracht, Bela Álvarez and Montserrat Butter and many more.
You can find the entire programme with all events until June 2024 here!
Workshop “Mail-Art – Letters as Art”
4. November 2023 & 2. Dezember, 13:00 – 16:00
Albertinum, Tzschirnerplatz 2, Dresden
Registration:besucherservice@skd.museum
Meeting Point: Ticket office in the atrium
Participation fee: Free of charge
With Marí Emily Bohley and Julia Eberth – In the workshop we will learn about the history of this art form as well as practical and creative ways of designing letters. In the weeks between the course days, we will send each other the so-called “art by post”. The results can be presented in the epilogue room of the exhibition.
Talk with contemporary witnesses “Jeans after work”
11. November 2023, 13:00 – 16:00
Albertinum, Tzschirnerplatz 2, Dresden
Registration:besucherservice@skd.museum
Meeting Point: Ticket office in the atrium
Participation fee: Free of charge
Those who couldn’t get jeans in the GDR found help from their colleagues from Vietnam. The former contract workers Hung Cao The and Vuong Tuan Hai remember and demonstrate seams, rivets and stone washed. The results can be presented in the epilogue room of the exhibition.
Many greetings from Dresden Neustadt!
PS.: One day before the ostZONE programme starts, the exhibition “Revolutionary Romances?” will open. So you are also cordially invited to the vernissage on 3 November, 7 pm, at the Albertinum! The opening will be accompanied by the music group Duo Elùn.
You can read the complete Nuslätta in the archive.