Common History and Its Private Stories

Opening: Thursday, 25 June 2009, 7pm
Duration: 26 June 2009 - 03 October 2009
Curators: Iara Boubnova, Roland Fink

The exhibition »Common History and Its Private Stories. Geschichte und Geschichten« is an attempt to honour the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall not so much as the main event of recent European history but as an event with massive implications; an event, which triggered a succession of political and global events that are defining our lives in the last 20 years. 

The presented artists come from different countries and different cultural backgrounds. Nevertheless, they are all witnesses of the change, the transition and the unification commented by using various artistic approaches.

With works a.o. by:
Hildegard Absalon, Armin Bardel, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Josef Dabernig, Heinrich Dunst, Anita Fricek, Marianne Greber, Matthias Herrmann, Christine Hohenbüchler, Robert Jelinek, Anna Jermolaewa, Ulrike Johannsen, David Jourdan, Dejan Kaludjerovic, Johanna Kandl, Martin Kitzler, Oleg Kulik, Marko Lulic, Ken Lum, Anna Meyer, Michail Michailov, monochrom, Muntean / Rosenblum, Lisl Ponger, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Peter Sandbichler, Kamen Stoyanov, Katharina Struber, Martina Stuffer, Magda Tothova, Borjana Ventzislavova, Gernot Wieland, Alexandra Zaitseva...

A Project of the Department for Cultural Affairs of the City of Vienna in cooperation with ICA Sofia and kindly support by Vienna City Library in the City Hall.