with Wanda Dubrau, Mascha Fehse & Valentina Karga, Pantea Lachin, Jinran Ha & Johanna Käthe Michel, Angelika Nguyen Nguyễn Phương Thanh, Andrea Pichl, Phạm Minh Đức, Karla Sachse, Daniele Tognozzi
opening night performance by Nguyễn + Transitory from 19:30

gegen\archive: wer bleibt wo is the first exhibition of the municipal Prater Galerie in 14 years. Prater has existed as a place for culture, art and lively exchange between various scenes since 1852, including contemporary art exhibitions from 1967 to 2007. Preparations are currently underway for the gallery’s reopening. While construction work continues, Prater Galerie will be hosted by further institutions and places in Berlin. The exhibition gegen\archive: wer bleibt wo is kindly hosted by ACUD Galerie and is organised by Sonja Hornung with the curatorial advice of Lena Johanna Reisner.

The first exhibition of Prater Galerie addresses the urban environment, asking the question: What does it mean when a municipal gallery reopens after more than ten years in one of the most gentrified areas of post-socialist Berlin? Artists living in Berlin from three generations investigate the neighbourhood and the wider East Berlin area. They draw attention to often-forgotten or overlooked events, experiences and narratives that have shaped urban spaces and people‘s lives since the years before the fall of the Wall and into our own time. gegen\archive: wer bleibt wo examines urban transformations and ruptures, viewing the city as a living archive into which countless structural and everyday actions that influence who and what belongs where are inscribed. It gives space to voices that push against the dominant archive, and are accountable to those places and groups that resist the gentrification code of “expensive, elitist, white”.

Program of events
gegen\archive: wer bleibt wo is accompanied by an extensive program of events that includes performances, readings, and an urban walk.

Sun, 21/11/2021, 3–4pm  Exhibition tour
Sat, 27/11/2021, 2–4pm  Talk and film screening with Hoài Thu Loos and Aymi Trần Vinaphunu, Schönfließerstr. 7, 10439 Berlin)
Sat, 27/11/2021, 5–7pm  Open neighborhood meeting with Kieztreffen Pankow
Sat, 04/12/2021, 2–4pm  Lücken Lesen | Urban walk by Karla Sachse
Sat, 15/01/2022, 6–8:30pm Viet Duc Stories | Short film screenings and discussion with the filmmakers Duc Ngo Ngoc, Trang Nguyen and others | Moderation: Angelika Nguyen
Sat, 22/01/2022, 3–5pm  Die Orte leben | Performance, conversation, festival by Wanda Dubrau
Sat, 29/01/2022, 3–4pm  Exhibition tour
Sat, 29/01/2022, 5–7pm  Open neighbourhood meeting with Kieztreffen Pankow
Sun, 30/01/2022, from 3pm Finissage with a performance by Phạm Minh Đức and Kerstin Möller

Organised by Sonja Hornung with the curatorial advice of Lena Johanna Reisner

Prater Galerie (Kastanienallee 7–9, 10435 Berlin)
Prater Galerie is a municipal institution of the Department of Art and Culture, Office for Further Education and Culture of the Municipal Office of Pankow in Berlin. It is led by Lena Prents.
The exhibition “gegen\archive: wer bleibt wo” is funded by the LOTTO-Stiftung and the Ausstellungsfonds für die Kommunalen Galerien der Berliner Bezirke.