Stepping out of Line. Woman Action Artists in the GDR
In the GDR of the 1980s, women artists seeking to work outside the state-controlled art establishment turned to new forms of expression. The immediacy of performance art left little room for state intervention, granting these artists the greatest possible scope for creative freedom within a dictatorial system.
Through spontaneous appearances and physical actions, they developed powerful strategies to resist the political appropriation of their art.
- Exhibition Site Albertinum
- DATES 17/05/2025—31/08/2025
täglich 11—17 Uhr, Montag geschlossen
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Die Kabinettausstellung
This cabinet exhibition focuses on three key positions within this action art movement. From 1984 onwards, Monika Andres, Verena Kyselka and Gabriele Stötzer, as members of the Erfurt Women Artists’ Group, cultivated a collective, feminist art practice over the course of a decade. Through performances, Super 8 films, fashion-object shows, painting and writing, they forged radical connections between art, life and resistance.Three costumes, worn in private or semi-public settings, bear witness to this creative counter-world to the official art scene.
Die Ausstellung
The exhibition is complemented by filmed interviews, offering insight into how women artists in the GDR carved out autonomous spaces and navigated the challenges of conformist artistic expression – sometimes bold, sometimes subtle, but always stepping out of line.
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