Ab 08.09.2010, ist die Sammlung „Poesie des Glaubens“ im Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank, Budapester Str. 35, 10787 Berlin (gleich gegenüber vom Zoo)
eröffnet. Die Ausstellung ist dann bis zum 19.12.2010 tägl. von 10 – 18h geöffnet .
In der Ausstellung werden Rumänische Hinterglasikonen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert aus den Sammlungen von Hartmut van Riesen, München; Irina Muntean, Berlin und dem Muzeul National al Unirii, Alba Iulia – Rumänien gezeigt.
Hinterland is a site specific-complex of works that reflects upon local production in relation to the forms of globalization imagined by past generations. The former König Smoked Fish Factory, is represented by a recreation of Mr. Erich Königs upstairs conference room, which is relocated to a factory area downstairs that have been recreated as an art gallery. Hinterland can be both the silence behind the front and an economic base for warfare (originally it is a military term). Presently, our location in the Berlin-Reineckendorf district is mistaken for a variant of the silence in a hinterland, much like the former socialist version of Brandenburg. In the artificial economies of the Cold War, the East Berlin factories represented economical hinterlands, by creating a socialist version of an egalitarian utopia. While in West Berlin, the economy was propped-up by West-German government, and the West in general. Within a special kind of West Berlin melancholy, fish smoking was a strong local tradition – of bourgeois utopia. Howard McCalebb
Dada Post, Nordbahnstraße 10, 13409 Berlin, Germany.
DIRECTIONS by S-Bahn: S-1 (Direction Oranienburg) and S-25 (Direction Hennigsdorf), to the Schönholz station.
If you take the S-Bahn be sure to exit at the Schönholz station not the Wollankstrasse station.