Opening . 3 July 2026 . 6 – 9 pm
Bernd Bankroth, Horst Bartnig, Wolfgang E. Biedermann, Dietrich Burger, Hartwig Ebersbach, Dieter Goltzsche, Renate Göritz, Jürgen Haufe, Rainer Herold, Karl-Georg Hirsch, Lutz Hirschmann, Veit Hofmann, Gerhard Kettner, Ingo Kirchner, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Alfred T. Mörstedt, Rolf Münzner, Charlotte Elfriede Pauly, Heinz Plank, Herbert Sandberg, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Hans Ticha, Andreas Wachter, Claus Weidensdorfer, Karla Woisnitza, Axel Wunsch
Curated by Thibaut de Ruyter based on a concept by Hans-Jörg Schirmbeck
An exhibition project by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in cooperation with the Wüstenrot Foundation. Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.
The original exhibition Musik in der Bildenden Kunst der DDR (Music in Visual Art in the GDR) featured over one hundred artworks, nearly fifty of which are now on view at KVOST – the Kunstverein Ost in Berlin. All except for one come from the ifa’s depot in Stuttgart, which houses the print collection of the Centre for Art Exhibitions of the GDR (Zentrum für Kunstausstellungen der DDR or ZfK).
Coda: Wiederaufführung einer Ausstellung (Coda: Reenacting an Exhibition) is part of the exhibition series Publik Machen: Zu Arbeit und Wirken des Zentrums für Kunstausstellungen der DDR (Making Public: On the Work and Legacy of the Center for Art Exhibitions of the GDR). Publik Machen examines the work of the Zentrum für Kunstausstellungen der DDR (ZfK) across six chapters. In 1991, the ZfK’s graphic design archive was transferred to the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). The ZfK combined state cultural policy with international exchange and today offers new perspectives on the relationship between art and politics. The project is realized in collaboration with the ifa-Galerie Berlin, Schloss Biesdorf, KVOST – Kunstverein Ost, the Prater Galerie, the Galerie im Turm, and the robotron-Kantine in Dresden.
