Opening “Das Weite suchen.” Photographs from the late GDR and early 1990s
This exhibition presents images from a decade that is now remembered and discussed controversially. It shows works by twelve photographers who sought to explore new horizons on a personal, artistic and socio-documentary level. Between 1983 and 1995, the artists captured both stagnation and existential changes in their images.
On 27 November 2025 at 6 p.m., the Brandenburg Museum will open the exhibition “Das Weite suchen.” Photographs from the late GDR and early 1990s, a collaboration with the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Research Potsdam (ZZF).
The exhibition features images by twelve photographers taken in the 1980s and early 1990s. The five chapters of the exhibition – Youth, Work, Body, Violence and Living Spaces – paint a picture of a society in transition. Fractures and continuities in the ‘long decade of change’ between the end of the GDR and the 1990s emerge and encourage a new examination of the decade of transformation in East Germany.
The Brandenburg Museum is an open place where transformation and upheaval in the past, present and future can be seen and discussed together.
Curated by Dr Isabel Enzenbach and Dr Anja Tack (ZZF Potsdam).
Programme
6 p.m.
Admission to the vernissage
7 p.m.
Opening of the exhibition
Welcoming remarks and contributions by:
Katja Melzer, Director of the Brandenburg Museum
Prof. Dr. Frank Bösch, Director of the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Research Potsdam
Curatorial introduction:
Dr Isabel Enzenbach and Dr Anja Tack, curators of the exhibition
Commentary on the exhibition:
Dennis Chiponda, presenter, journalist and diversity trainer
Musical accompaniment:
DJ Helen
Followed by: Discussions and drinks in the foyer.
Admission
Admission is free. Registration is required.
Contact for questions:
+49 331 620 85 50
kontakt@gesellschaft-kultur-geschichte.de
Support and Partners
“Das Weite suchen” is an exhibition organized by the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) in cooperation with the Brandenburg Museum for the Present, Past and Future. It is funded by the East German Savings Banks Foundation together with the Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse.
Curators:
Dr Isabel Enzenbach and Dr Anja Tack bring their long-standing expertise in East German photography and memory culture to the exhibition. Both are researchers at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF), focusing on the visual history of transformation, and have curated numerous exhibitions on these themes.
