Assuming Asymmetries: THE MISSING HOUSE
- Talk
17.09.2023 / 16:00 – 17:00
by Christian Boltanski
A site visit and a talk around the fantom artwork, with Joanna Warsza, Sarah Alberti, Erik Sandberg et al.
Große Hamburger Straße 15/16, 10115 Berlin
THE MISSING HOUSE by Christian Boltanski, Christiane Büchner and Andreas Fischer is one of the few remaining artworks from the exhibition Endlichkeit der Freiheit 1990, the first public exhibition in Berlin after the fall of the wall and before the reunification of Germany. It took place in the summer of 1990 at the initiative of Heiner Müller, Rebecca Horn und Jannis Kounellis and was organised by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. The Missing House till todays ‘stands’ in the middle of Berlin and persisted only thanks to the care of the inhabitants. The book Assuming Asymmetries edited by CuratorLab from Konstfack University presents a series of interviews with the people involved in the project and asks where the lines of divides lay today.
The event takes place within the framework of the collaborative project If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. Art and Internationalism Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
