Coda: Wiederaufführung einer Ausstellung

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.

Coda: Wiederaufführung einer Ausstellung

QUEER ART IN THE GDR?

Biographies between Underground and Propaganda

Toni Ebel, Andreas Fux, Harry Hachmeister, Jochen Hass, Dorothea von Philipsborn, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Rita „Tommy“ Thomas, Jürgen Wittdorf, Egon Wrobel

curated by Stephan Koal

KVOST. All artists / Other exhibition venues: Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge: Egon Wrobel / Mitte Museum: Andreas Fux & Jürgen Wittdorf / nGbK
All artists

The exhibition and extensive accompanying events programme shed light on artists’ positions in East Germany and encourage a new reading of art from the GDR. The project is a KVOST initiative and is taking place in cooperation with neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbk), Mitte Museum, and Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge. The exhibition draws on the checkered life stories of nine artists and their works, ranging from painting, sculpture, and ceramics to photography. On that basis it shows how differently the nine addressed the political and social conditions of their day. To what extent did sexual orientation influence their artistic practice and their careers?

QUEER ART IN THE GDR?

KVOST SchauFenster : PATRYK KUJAWA

The construction site—for many a symbol of amplified, even toxic masculinity—is, for me, rather a place of exhaustion and fragility, where hidden fears, frustrations, and social and physical pressures accumulate. Patryk Kujawa

With kind support of Polnisches Institut Berlin.

The KVOST window display is illuminated daily from 2 - 10 pm.

KVOST SchauFenster : PATRYK KUJAWA

Solomiya No. 5 — After Now @KVOST 27.11.2025 . 7 pm

We invite you to join the release of the fifth issue of Solomiya Magazine. The magazine’s team, as well as many contributing artists, will be present and discuss their work with Natalia Martynenko, a contributor to the Berlin-based Cashmere Radio. A music live set by Udda will follow the presentation.

Solomiya No. 5 — After Now @KVOST 27.11.2025 . 7 pm

DAVID APAKIDZE

The Knight at the Crossroads
Claus Michaletz Preis & KVOST Stipendium 2025

As part of Berlin Art Week, KVOST presents Georgian artist David Apakidze (*1998). Apakidze is this year's KVOST grant holder and recipient of the 2025 Claus Michaletz Prize. The exhibition is part of the "Featured" section of Berlin Art Week.

DAVID APAKIDZE

Kommunikation und Haltung

The Museum Haus des Papiers organizes and presents the international photo festival Kommunikation und Haltung, featuring 16 exhibitions across Berlin, Chemnitz, and Basel. The KVOST SchauFenster is part of the festival and is showing works by the renowned photojournalist Thomas Billhardt.

KVOST SchauFenster . THOMAS BILLHARDT . Spartakiade

The KVOST window display is illuminated daily from 2 - 10 pm.

Kommunikation und Haltung

ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA

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curated by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher

KVOST presents the first solo exhibition in Berlin by Polish artist Aneta Grzeszykowska (*1974). The exhibition is a collaboration with Art Collection Telekom, which was founded in 2010 and focuses on contemporary art from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe.

ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA