"IM DIALOG - Hasso Plattner Collection: Art from the GDR"

Recently, VBKI members were given the rare opportunity to take part in an exclusiveguided tourof the exhibition "IM DIALOG - Hasso Plattner Collection: Art from the GDR"at DAS MINSK, which has been on display since February 1 and will remain on display until August 10, 2025.

The exhibition presents around 50 works by artists from the period between 1966 and 1992, focusing not only on well-known names such as Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke, Arno Rink and Gerhard Richter, but also on less conventional voices such as Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Gabriele Stötzer and Peter Hermann.

The curatorial orientation deliberately pursues the approach of a "dialog". On the first floor, the exhibition places the works in their historical context - exemplified by the painting "Portrait Henry Schumann" (1968) by Arno Rink and his book Ateliergespräche, in which a total of 20 artists have their say in 1976. On the upper floor, individual works enter into a visual dialog with each other and refer to larger cultural-political questions after 1976, especially in the field of tension between expression and silence, between commitment and withdrawal

The accompanying program was also presented as part of the tour: A new podcast series "Studio Talks 2025", curated by Daniel Milnes,allowstheartiststo talk abouttheir works and experiences and thus opens upa further,personalview of GDR art today.

Overall, the gallery tour was a moving visual and intellectual experience. The polyphony of the exhibited artists - from established figures to those with unconventional artistic careers - made "IM DIALOG" an impressive encounter with theartisticdiversity and social dynamics of the GDR. An evening that reveals how artbuildsbridgesinconversation acrosstimes, positions and politicalrifts.