More than 130 works by around 60 artists in all genres will show how this idiosyncratic art form that is independent of political schedules has charted the expression and reflection of the phenomenon in its multitude of manuscripts, artistic models and ways of thinking. Even though the exhibition focuses on the chronology of East German "self-liberation from the bottom up" in striking and hitherto unknown photographs and video works, "Point of No Return" does not focus on the contemporary dramaturgy of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. Rather, the immediate prehistory as well as the transformation period after 1989 are included for the first time. "Point of No Return" shows the "cracks in the wall" that became apparent in the 1980s and their causes and interprets its unexpected fall as the redefinition of artistic creation after 1989.
Time and place
May 8 to September 10, 2019
Museum der bildenden Künste
Katharinenstraße 10
04109 Leipzig, Germany