In fall 2025, the MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam will present the exhibition Wohnkomplex. Kunst und Leben im Plattenbau (Residential Complex: Art and Life in Prefabricated Buildings). Guest curator Kito Nedo’s group exhibition explores how East German prefabricated housing estates are represented in art.
Residential complex displays around 50 works by artists such as Karl-Heinz Adler, Sibylle Bergemann, Kurt Dornis, Markus Draper, Seiichi Furuya, Peter Herrmann, Sebastian Jung, Gisela Kurkhaus-Müller, Harald Metzkes, Sabine Moritz, Henrike Naumann, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Manfred Pernice, Uwe Pfeifer, Sonya Schönberger, Nathalie Valeska Schüler, Wenke Seemann, Robert Seidel, Christian Thoelke, Stephen Willats, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, and others.
The exhibition presents installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and films created since the 1970s. Kito Nedo brings together works that view and classify prefabricated buildings in different ways—as places to live, as symbols of social utopias, and as a projection screen for social change. The …
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Image above: Markus Draper, Neubrandenburg, Traberallee, Detail, 2015, Privatsammlung Köln © Markus Draper, Foto: Hans-Georg Gaul.