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Blackbox #14
In the 14th edition of Blackbox, the Bröhan Museum is showing a selection of drawings and posters by the East Berlin artists' group PGH and is expanding its series on graphic design with important positions from the GDR and the reunification period.
Image gallery
Henning Wagenbreth Plakat, Offset, A1 1995
Henning Wagenbreth Schablonengraffiti A3 1. Ladenschild der Zentrale PGH Glühende Berlin 1991
Gestaltung: Anke Feuchtenberger Text: Michaela Beck Postkarten für den Unabhängigen Frauenverband 1990
BECK Erich’s Lampenladen 1990
Rich colours, a bizarre world of figures and rebellious humour - conformist boredom looks different.
The graphic design of this ‘production co-operative of craftsmen’ of the former GDR, PGH for short, is bursting with energetic creative drive. The East Berlin artists' group wrote its vision of a glowing future on its own banner in 1989, shortly before the fall of the Wall. Its members Detlef Beck (BECK), Anke Feuchtenberger, Holger Fickelscherer and Henning Wagenbreth stand for the creative appropriation of social change at the time of reunification.
In the former GDR, a craft production co-operative (PGH) was a voluntary association of craftsmen and tradespeople working together. In the case of PGH Glühende Zukunft, it was the cartoonist BECK, the comic artist and illustrator Anke Feuchtenberger, the comic artist and cartoonist Holger Fickelscherer and the graphic artist and illustrator Henning Wagenbreth. They had worked together from 1989 to 1995. Henning Wagenbreth founded a PGH for artistic productions back in 1988. The name was inspired by the ‘Blühende Zukunft’ horticultural production co-operative.
During the period in which the PGH Glühende Zukunft was active together, a diverse, socially and politically committed body of work was created.
The diverse formats, printing techniques and materials, bold colours and strong contrasts are striking. In combination with haunting, figurative motifs, an expressive, unmistakable visual language was created.
With the exhibition ‘PGH Glowing Future’, the Bröhan Museum is continuing its series on important graphic design. Following the jazz posters by Niklaus Troxler, the concert posters by Günther Kieser, the French graphic design collective Grapus, Otl Aicher's graphic design for Olympia 72 and the Krautrock music posters, the exhibition ‘PGH Glowing Future’ not only presents an artistic signature, but also the image of a promise kept, in which the aesthetics of a new beginning are just as inscribed as the political commitment: demanding, optimistic and free.
Additional information
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Free public tours (plus museum admission)
Friday, 4 p.m., no registration required
5 July/12 July/19 July/26 July/2 August/9 August/6 September
Free “Family Sundays”
every 3rd Sunday of the month, 11 a.m., for children (5-12 years) and their families, 90 minutes.
Limited number of participants. Registration required at: vermittlung@broehan-museum.de, Tel: 030/32690625
Long Night of Museums
Sat, 24 August, from 6 p.m.
