Strömungen in Bewegung

Strömungen in Bewegung /
Currents in motion
2021/2022

20 glasplattes 42x29,7 cm, UV-Print
typo laser-engravings on glas, Index

„Wir waren allein und trugen die volle Verantwortung für alles was nicht passierte.“
We were alone and bore full responsibility for
everything that did not happen.
(frau anders GZ_S_01_191)

Based on my East German biography and due to an invitation of the Berlinische Galerie and the cultural journalist Claudia Henne, in 2021/22, I dealt with the forgotten activities of non-governmental women’s and lesbian groups in the GDR, in terms of content and aesthetics. This resulted in the 20-part photographic work: Strömungen in Bewegung / Currents in motion, which in its openness and multidimensionality reflects feminist and lesbian perspectives of the 1980s/90s in the GDR and offers alternative ways of looking at history. The typo Kis Antiqua used for the laser-engravings on the glasplates, was created by the East German type-designer Hildegrad Korger in 1984. It corresponds with the concept to highlight the activities and achievments of women in the GDR, that have hardly found their way into the historical narratives of the Cold War, but also into women’s history in the context of Germany as a whole. The typedesign for this work was created in collaboration with Reymund Schröder.

The work Strömungen in Bewegung / Currents in motion is part of the photographic collection of the Berlinische Galerie.