The Sky over Berlin

Heike Franziska Bartsch, Sandra Becker, Cora Berndt-Stühmer, Marion Luise Buchmann, Aenne Burghardt, Isabelle Gabrijel, Margret Holz, Verena Kyselka, Erika Matsunami, Barbara Noculak, Karina Pospiech, Kathrin Sohn, Gisela Wiemann, Sonia Wohlfahrt-Steinert

The group exhibition takes on the city as a hotbed of dreams, longings, and ambition. The artists, some of them in a very personal way, explore how Berlin has changed over the past thirty years and how it continues to change. Fourteen artistic positions tell a story of historic transformation, some of them documentary or experimental in nature, and others with a focus on historic transition, material change, and the shift in value judgments. Each of them allows the viewer to experience—in many cases in an almost physical way—how the city has exerted its effect on the individual, as well as the importance it still has in terms of a collective understanding of history and community life.

In a majority of the works, the series plays an important role. Photographic forms such as photomontage and double exposure as well as a wide variety of dimensions ranging from very large formats to the small passport photo size are also represented.