©SIMON MENNER AND BSTU/COURTESY THE ARTIST
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “From Far Away. Images of the GDR” is on view at the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany, through Sunday, September 15. The group exhibition brings together photographs and image-based works taken by Tina Bara, Seiichi Furuya, Tamami Iinuma, Sven Johne, and others, during, or about, East Germany, formally called the German Democratic Republic.
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Jens Klein, from the series "Balloons," 2013, archival pigment print, with text line in letterpress printing.
©BSTU ARCHIVE/COURTESY THE ARTIST
Tina Bara, Long while, 2016, photo film.
©TINA BARA/COURTESY THE ARTIST
Christian Lange, Lange Liste 79-97 (detail), 2013/2019, wallpaper based on the artist's book of the same name.
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Einar Schleef, home. 100 photos from the years 1970-1975, video of the artist's book, published 1981 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main.
ART: ©VG BiLD-KUNST, BONN 2019; REPRODUCTION: ©NIKOLAUS STEGLICH
Christine Schlegel Welded, Surveillance, 1999, Stasi File 000020 ... of the collage cycle wood, textile, metal, and plastic.
©JÖRG SCHÖNER/EDITED BY ANTONIA SCHLEGEL
Paul Alexander Stolle, It worked again, 2017/2019, one-channel projection based on the artist's book of the same name.
©HEINER STOLLE/COURTESY THE ARTIST
Joerg Waehner, I was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (collaged details), 2018/2019, slideshow, color, black-and-white, sound.
©PICTURES: DOCUMENTS OF THE TIME, ARCHIVE OF THE ARTIST/COURTESY THE ARTIST
Seiichi Furuya, Dresden, 1984.
© SEIICHI FURUYA/COURTESY GALLERY THOMAS FISCHER
Tamami Iinuma, Stolen memories were destroyed again, 2016, from the series "Japan," photo installation.
©TAMAMI IINUMA/COURTESY THE ARTIST
Sven Johne, Kleistners Archive (detail), 2006.
©SVEN JOHNE, VG BILD-KUNST, BONN 2019