MONSTERA
MONSTERA. Landscapes of Remembrance for Reeducation — Good Citizenship in Yesterday and Today. A hybrid mediation project — exhibition. By Romy Schmidt, Aleksandar Todorovic, Oliver Exner, Lucia Johnson, Jakob Knapp & guests.
Monstera demands visibility and representation of the repressive reeducation processes of approximately 60,000 children in 42 GDR special children's residential homes, their pedagogical-political origins and the developments in the present, in the mirror of our global society of upheaval since 89/90.
In the socialist architecture of Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, we are planning to perform a memorial landscape as a walk-in interactive installation. Through an expansive cartography, a place for adults and children, WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV invites visitors to explore, learn with one another, listen, and share. The exhibition will be the result of a long-term research and thus development process, whose growing architecture will be additionally made visible in a digital platform, to share knowledge and networks, to remember and document outcomes intersectionally, and to habilitate the expression of individual strategies of resilience and resistance.
MONSTERA will be on view at the Neue Galerie für Bildende Künste Berlin at Alexanderplatz on Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13, from 2. December 2023 until 28. January 2024.
MONSTERA
MONSTERA. Landscapes of Remembrance for Reeducation — Good Citizenship in Yesterday and Today. A hybrid mediation project — exhibition. By Romy Schmidt, Aleksandar Todorovic, Oliver Exner, Lucia Johnson, Jakob Knapp & guests.
Monstera demands visibility and representation of the repressive reeducation processes of approximately 60,000 children in 42 GDR special children's residential homes, their pedagogical-political origins and the developments in the present, in the mirror of our global society of upheaval since 89/90.
In the socialist architecture of Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, we are planning to perform a memorial landscape as a walk-in interactive installation. Through an expansive cartography, a place for adults and children, WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV invites visitors to explore, learn with one another, listen, and share. The exhibition will be the result of a long-term research and thus development process, whose growing architecture will be additionally made visible in a digital platform, to share knowledge and networks, to remember and document outcomes intersectionally, and to habilitate the expression of individual strategies of resilience and resistance.
MONSTERA will be on view at the Neue Galerie für Bildende Künste Berlin at Alexanderplatz on Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13, from 2. December 2023 until 28. January 2024.
