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Audiostory - IN DIALOGUE – Hasso Plattner Collection: Art from the GDR

DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam is showing the exhibition "IN DIALOGUE – Hasso Plattner Collection: Art from the GDR" in spring 2025. The second presentation of the collection focuses on dialogue as a means of engaging with art from the former GDR. 

"IN DIALOGUE" shows approximately 50 works from the collection by artists like Gudrun Brüne, Hartwig Ebersbach, Günter Firit, Ulrich Hachulla, Rolf Händler, Bernhard Heisig, Johannes Heisig, Peter Herrmann, Ralf Kerbach, Wilhelm Klotzek, Walter Libuda, Peter Makolies, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Ursula Mattheuer-Neustädt, Harald Metzkes, Stefan Plenkers, Núria Quevedo, Robert Rehfeldt, Gerhard Richter, Arno Rink, Cornelia Schleime, Thomas Schulz, Willi Sitte, Klaus Staeck, Gabriele Stötzer, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Werner Tübke, and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, predominantly from the period between 1966 and 1992. 
 

The audio guide for "IN DIALOGUE" was produced by nousdigital

 

TEXT

Birgit Albrecht

 

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Verena Ruschemeier

Chapter 1

3:25

Painting: In the foreground there is a man wearing glasses and a suit, behind him there are several paintings and objects.

Chapter 2

Arno Rink: Portrait Henry Schumann [Portrait of Henry Schumann], 1968 

1:58

Chapter 3

Peter Herrmann: Spaziergang in Pillnitz, 1980

2:26

Chapter 4

Werner Tübke:
Drei Frauen aus Cefalù [Three Women from Cefalù], 1983
​Der Narr und das Mädchen [The Jester and the Girl], 1982

2:52

Chapter 5

Harald Metzkes: Regentag im Atelier, 1987

2:53

Chapter 6

Wolfgang Mattheuer:
Das graue Fenster [The Gray Window], 1969  
Interieur [Interior], 1976 

3:01

Chapter 7

Wilhelm Klotzek: Tiel für S.H.P. [Titles for S.H.P], 2023

2:18

Willi Sitte, Angela Davis and Her Judge

Chapter 8

Willi Sitte: Angela Davis und Ihr Richter [Angela Davis and Her Judge], 1971

2:58

Chapter 9

Bernhard Heisig: Venedig [Venice], 1989/1990

2:59

Chapter 10

Gabriele Stötzer: Seher in der Wüste [Seer in the Desert], 1977/78

2:55

Painting: Three people are sitting around a table. The person in the middle is wearing a red hat that looks like a lobster. Apart from the hat, the colors are warm shades of brown, grey and ochre.

Chapter 11

Ralf Kerbach: Dresdner Freunde [Dresden Friends], 1983/84

3:11

Chapter 12

Stefan Plenkers: Fremde Zeichen [Strange Signs], 1986

2:25

Chapter 13

Cornelia Schleime:
Styx I, 1984
Styx II, 1984

3:12

Chapter 14

Gerhard Richter: A B, Still [A B, Quiet], 1986

2:21

Chapter 15

Johannes Heisig: Unheimliche Begegnung privater Art [Uncanny Encounter of the Private Kind], 1985

3:00

Chapter 16

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: In sich gefangen [Trapped Within Itself], 1973

2:47

Chapter 17

Gudrun Brüne: Judith und Holofernes [Judith and Holofernes], 2007

2:51

Chapter 18

Erika Stürmer-Alex:
Der Spaziergang, 1974
Trennung, 1980

2:47

Chapter 19

Ulrich Hachulla: Karneval (Diptychon), 1984/85

2:38