neubelichtung. Ein Album mit Bitterfeld-Wolfen

In the organizer's words:

What picture do private photographs paint of our lives and the upheavals of history? How did the people of Bitterfeld-Wolfen capture their world in photographs?

Thanks to numerous contributions, the artist Anke Heelemann was able to compile a wide variety of personal perspectives - from photo albums, memory boxes and brigade diaries, across the last century. The pictures show the everyday aspects of life, both remarkable and unusual - family celebrations, everyday scenes, excursions. But they also casually reveal the history of a city and a region.

In this interactive installation, visitors are invited to design and comment on the pages of the photo album using the collected photos, captions and quotes. In this way, they can record their own individual perspective on yesterday, today and tomorrow and jointly shed new light on history.

Concept and project development: Anke Heelemann

Anke Heelemann, born in Hoyerswerda, studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney (Australia). As a media artist, she has been working with forgotten private photographs under the label FOTOTHEK since 2006. In her interactive-performative artistic work, Anke Heelemann draws on interventions, theater and installations, among other things. www.vergessene-fotos.de

• free of charge, no ticket required
• in combination with: "Names we carry" by Michikazu Matsune
• Foyer
• Belongs to: Auf Wiedersehen, Palast, Hin und weg. The Palace of the Republic is present