Marta Dyachenko (*1990 in Kyjiw, Ukraine) studierte Architektur und Bildende Kunst mit dem Schwerpunkt Bildhauerei an der Universität der Künste Berlin bei Manfred Pernice. In ihren Installationen arbeitet sie häufig mit modellhaften Skulpturen in der Landschaft. Dabei spielt die Beschäftigung mit dem Verhältnis von Natur und Mensch und dem gesellschaftlich konstruierten Blick auf Landschaft eine…

Beginning in the spring of 1933, the National Socialists were manifesting their newly acquired claim to power on all levels. An important aspect of this was penetrating society, even into private space. This not only meant idealizing conservative gender roles and images of the family or introducing »Heil Hitler« as an everyday greeting and the…

The competition for the »Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner« was probably the most important art competition of the post-war period. More than 3,000 artists from all over the world participated, including sculptors and architects such as Max Bill, Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, and Bernhard Heiliger. Like no other competition after 1945, it…

The sculptor and writer Wieland Förster is born in Dresden on February 12, 1930. As a young man, he experiences the war and the bombing of his native city. At the age of sixteen, he is imprisoned in Bautzen for three years, allegedly for possessing a weapon. After his release, he begins studying sculpture, initially…

In August 1945, Galerie Gerd Rosen opened at Kurfürstendamm 215 as the first exhibition space for modern and contemporary art in post-war Berlin. Its founders were the bookseller Gerd Rosen, the businessman and art collector Max Leon Flemming, and the painter Heinz Trökes. The writer Ilse-Margret Vogel was also involved in building it. Trökes acted…