Wo Kolibris schwimmen - Leben und Tod an der Ostseegrenze der DDR

In the GDR, the Baltic Sea marked a space in which two realities overlapped: a vacation landscape and a deadly guarded state border. While many people spent their summers on the coast, others tried to escape the SED dictatorship by crossing these very waters. At least 135 people lost their lives in the process.

The artist Marie Jeschke approaches this space of remembrance in an unusual way: Her paintings were created directly in and with the waters that once marked the border between East and West Germany - the Baltic Sea, the Spree and the Teltow Canal. Accompanying photographs document this special creative process at the interface of contemporary painting and the culture of remembrance.

Moderated by Dr. Martina Weyrauch, Prof. Dr. Hope M. Harrison and Marie Jeschke will discuss how historical and artistic research complement each other - and what new approaches art and science can open up together. Afterwards, the exhibition "Where Hummingbirds Swim" will be opened at the Berlin Wall Memorial Visitor Center.

Program

• Welcome: Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier
• Lecture: Prof. Dr. Hope M. Harrison
• Panel discussion: Prof. Dr. Hope M. Harrison and Marie Jeschke, moderated by Dr. Martina Weyrauch
• Opening of the exhibition "Where hummingbirds swim"