Exhibition in two parts

Part 1: September 14 – November 16, 2024

With works by Claus Bach, Kurt Buchwald, Margit Emmrich, Seiichi Furuya, Gerhard Gäbler, Christina Glanz, Wolfgang Gregor, Gerald Große, Steffen Heckel, Harald Kirschner, Matthias Leupold, Wolf Lützen/Hans Pieler, Barbara Metselaar Berthold, Christine Radack, Ilse Ruppert, Einar Schleef, Jim Schütz, Günter Starke, Ines Thate-Keler, Jörn Vanhöfen, Siegfried Wittenburg, Ulrich Wüst, Renate Zeun, Helmut Ziebarth, and an artistic intervention by Kristin Wenzel.

Part 2: November 23, 2024 – February 15, 2025

With works by Peter Badel, Gerd Danigel, Christiane Eisler, Margit Emmrich, Seiichi Furuya, Christine Furuya-Gössler, Gerhard Gäbler, Christina Glanz, Anselm Graubner, Wolfgang Gregor, Gerald Große, Ingrid Hartmetz, Harald Kirschner, Thomas Kläber, Matthias Leupold, Ute Mahler, Barbara Metselaar Berthold, Katharina Müller, Christine Radack, Enkhbat Roozon, Andreas Rost, Ilse Ruppert, Günter Starke, Jim Schütz, Gabriele Stötzer, Ines Thate-Keler, and an artistic intervention by Anke Heelemann/Photo Library for Forgotten Private Photographs.

Location: Station of Urban Cultures, Auerbacher Ring 41, 12619 Berlin

Station of Urban Cultures Working Group: Jochen Becker, Eva Hertzsch, Margarete Kiss, Constanze Musterer, Adam Page, Katharina Ziemke

The end of the GDR is not the end of images. What perspectives do we choose to form an image of a society whose inner constitution still leaves many questions unanswered? The GDR captured in photographs is a temporally closed collecting area that has only been partially explored. With the historical distance of three decades, it is worthwhile to revisit the familiar material and add further perspectives.

The views of the late GDR up to the period of upheaval in the early 1990s range from documentary practices to artistic and staged visual worlds, include the media-crossing medium of photographic film, and question the affinities between film and photography.

The photography exhibition „An den Randen staggert das Glück“ (Happiness teeters on the edges), first shown at the ACC Gallery in Weimar, is now making a stop in Berlin-Hellersdorf, connecting different genres and artists. To this end, a selection of over 360 images by 37 photographers will be reexamined in two self-contained phases.

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The Berlin adaptation of the exhibition project „Happiness Staggers at the Edges“ is a collaboration between the new Society for Fine Arts and the ACC Galerie Weimar, in collaboration with the research network „Experience of Dictatorship and Transformation,“ funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

As part of Berlin Art Week