Exhibition
Evoking Reality: Constituting actuality in photography and video art
25 Nov 2018 – 10 Jun 2019
Mercedes-Benz Contemporary
Berlin, Germany
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Maya Zack, Living Room 4, 2009 Image: Courtesy Daimler Art Collection. Photo: Hans-Georg Gaul, Berlin.
Art Tour
History as a narrative construct
1 Jun 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
FREE
Travel Information
- Varian-Fry-Str.: 200, 347
- S+U Potsdamer Platz Bhf: S1, S2, S25; U2
Event map
In light of historical catastrophes, various works in the current exhibition reflect on traumatic memories as stratifications and summaries of personal and collective disasters.
About
The tour is dedicated to complex artistic analyses of history and illuminates the relationship between individual fate and national history. While Tacita Dean stages a new sequence of quasi-cinematographic events with historical photographs and Oskar Schmidt brings to mind the pictorial compositions of iconic photographs by means of re-enactment, Maya Zack creates a traumatic experience through a digitally reconstructed memory space.
The guided tour is in German, lasts about one hour and is free of charge. Registration is not required.
