2025
Worin unsere Stärke besteht – to be continued
Exhibition
April 28th – July 20th, 2025
Schloss Biesdorf, Alt Biesdorf 55, 12683 Berlin
Wedn. – Thur./Sat. – Mon. 10 am – 6 pm, Fri. 12 am – 9 pm
Tuesdays closed
Opening: Sunday, April 27th 2025, 6pm
The group exhibition Worin unsere Stärke besteht – to be continued (“Where our strength lies – to be continued”) ties in with current national and international discourses on the GDR (German Democratic Republic). The show is curated by Andrea Pichl and combines eleven contemporary positions by female artists from different generations who were born in the GDR before the fall of the Wall with works by female artists from the Beeskow collection of art from the GDR.
The presented works are characterised by a plurality of topics, media, approaches, and experiences.
Tina Bara, Sibylle Bergemann, Barbara Berthold, Yvon Chabrowski, Regina Fleck, Ellen Fuhr, Ulla Gottschalk-Walter, Sabina Grzimek, Monika Hamann, Angela Hampel, Doris Kahane, Petra Kasten, Susanne Kutter, Ingeborg Lockemann, Barbara Lüdde, Emerita Pansowowa, Helga Paris, Nuria Quevedo, Evelyn Richter, Jana Richter, Ute Richter, Ricarda Roggan, Elske Rosenfeld, Karin Sakrowski, Christine Schlegel, Luise Schröder, Gundula Schulze, Maria Sewcz, Ulrike Theusner, Christine Wahl, Ute Weiss Leder, Steffie Wendt, Karin Wieckhorst, Gabriele Worgitzki, Miro Zahra, Tanja Zimmermann
The exhibition is a cooperation project between Schloss Biesdorf and the Museum Utopie und Alltag Beeskow.
Disruptive Structures
Exhibition
May 10th – July 20th, 2025
D21 Kunstraum, Demmeringstraße 21, 04177 Leipzig
Saturday and Sunday, 3–7pm and by appointment
Opening: Friday, May 9th 2025, 7pm
The group exhibition Disruptive Structures deals with power structures on a political, social and societal level. All of the works reveal learned patterns of power perpetuation that are passed down through generations and establish certain narratives. Based on the examination of current and historical events and their significance for the present, the works negotiate utopian potential in different ways by uncovering existing structures, questioning dominant narratives and strengthening marginalized voices. With Sharon Paz, Luise Schröder, Christina Werner, Anna Scherbyna, curated by Constanze Müller.
Events related to the exhibition:
Saturday, May 10th, 2025, 4pm: Guided tour
Saturday, May 10th, 2025, 5pm: Artist Talk
Sunday, June 29th, 2025, 5pm: „Die Macht der Bilder“ (The Power of Images), talk with the curator Sabine Weier
In conversation with the author and curator Sabine Weier, the event will focus on image strategies based on the exhibited works and question interpretative sovereignties and patterns of perception that have been visually conveyed over generations up to the present day and thus influence social thinking and action. Moderated by Constanze Müller.
Sunday, July 20th, 2025, 4pm: Guided tour
Sunday, July 20th, 2025, 5pm: Book presentation and finissage with Luise Schröder and other guests
Based on archive material of the GDR opposition, Luise Schröder focuses in particular on the women's and lesbian movement of the 1980s/90s and examines its practices of resistance. She presents her new book Strömungen in Bewegung.
Fotohof Salzburg
Book Talk
Thursday, April 24th, 2025, 7pm
FOTOHOF, Inge-Morath-Platz 1–3
5020 Salzburg
Four new publications from the FOTOHOF>EDITION publishing house will be presented in talks.
Luise Schröder: Strömungen in Bewegung with Birgit Sattlecker
Vincent Forstenlechner: ROYGBIV with Valentin Backhaus
Michael Jochum: Gemischter Satz with Mateusz Dworczyk
Edith Tudor-Hart: Ein klarer Blick in turbulenten Zeiten with Katrin Froschauer and Peter Schreiner
Luise Schröder's artist publication Strömungen in Bewegung addresses the experiences and activities of non-governmental women's and lesbian groups in the GDR in the 1980s and 1990s and thereby offers plural and alternative perspectives on feminist GDR history. The image and text materials used in the publication come from the GrauZone collection / Archive of the GDR Opposition and the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive & Library and are artistically edited and re-worked by the artist. Strömungen in Bewegung was designed by Anika Rosen and published by FOTOHOF>EDITION in March 2025.
The publication Strömungen in Bewegung was commissioned, supported and financed by the Berlin Artistic Research Programme, the Stiftung Kunstfonds / Neustart Kultur and the SpallArt Collection.
Night of Libraries 2025
Book presentation and discussion
Friday, 4 April 2025 at 7 pm
Library of the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK)
Karl-Tauchnitz-Str. 9-11, 04107 Leipzig
Admission free
As part of the Night of Libraries, Luise Schröder will present her artist book Strömungen in Bewegung. In conversation with cultural scientist Paula Kreutzmann, who is researching the lesbian movement in the GDR, Luise Schröder will discuss the histories of the East German women's* movement and relate to the role and significance of archives as powerful institutions in relation to history and memory.
The event is a collaboration between the GfZK Leipzig and the MONAliesA - Feminist Library and Archive as part of the first Night of Libraries in Leipzig 2025.
Link to the event at GfZK Leipzig
Long Night of Libraries 2025
MONALiesA - Feminist Library and Archive Leipzig
It's a book 2025
Independent Publishing Fair
It’s a book, it’s fragmentary, together it’s a library
Saturday, 29 March 2025
3-4 pm book signing at the book table of FOTOHOF>EDITION
Atrium of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Wächterstr. 11, 04107 Leipzig
Book Fair: 12 pm-8 pm
Luise Schröder's artist book Strömungen in Bewegung thematises the experiences and activities of non-governmental women's and lesbian groups in the GDR in the 1980s/90s. The material used, from the GrauZone collection of the Archive of the GDR Opposition and the Spinnboden lesbian archive & library, was edited and reworked by Luise Schröder. By placing strategies of self-empowerment and feminist resistance practices in relation to the present, plural and alternative perspectives on GDR history become visible. The publication was commissioned, supported and financed by Berlin Artistic Research Programme, Stiftung Kunstfonds / Neustart Kultur and the SpallArt Collection. The artist book was designed by Anika Rosen and published by FOTOHOF>EDITION.
FOTOHOF>EDITION will be presenting new publications at it's a book, including Strömungen in Bewegung. Luise Schröder will be present for the book signing between 3 and 4 pm.
Artist Book at FOTOHOF>EDITION
Website it’s a book 2025
Event at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
EMOP - European Month of Photography
Book Launch and Audio Play
Public Event European Month of Photography - EMOP Festival 2025
Book Launch and Audio Play: Strömungen in Bewegung / Kontaktanzeigen
Sunday, March 9th, 2025, 3-6:30pm
Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung
Uferstr. 13, 13357 Berlin
3pm - 4:30 pm
Book presentation Strömungen in Bewegung with a conversation between Luise Schröder and Christin Müller
5pm - 6:30 pm
Audio play Kontaktanzeigen-Queere Generationendialoge in Ostdeutschland, afterwards Luise Schröder in dialogue with Judith Geffert
As part of the exhibition Immer laut zu sagen, was ist und ich will (engl. Always saying out loud what’s up and I want), Luise Schröder will present her artist book Strömungen in Bewegung being published in March 2025 by FOTOHOF EDITION and designed by Anika Rosen. Thematically as well as aesthetically it illuminates the experiences and activities of non-governmental women's and lesbian groups in the GDR of the 1980s and 1990s. Artistically edited and altered by Luise Schröder, the image and text material used in the publication originates from the GrauZone collection of the Archive of the GDR Opposition and the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive & Library. The artist not only deals with historical gaps, but also looks at archives as powerful institutions. On the basis of the new publication Luise Schröder and Christin Müller look at strategies of self-empowerment and feminist resistance practices and place them in relation to the present in order to discuss plural and alternative perspectives on GDR history.
Afterwards, the audio play Kontaktanzeigen-Queere Generationendialoge in Ostdeutschland by Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki, Judith Geffert and Jule Gorke forges a link to frau anders - an underground magazine that connected and inspired numerous women and lesbians in the GDR at the end of the 1980s. There is little dialogue between the pioneers of that time and young queers today. The audio play initiates contact.
Christin Müller studied cultural studies, aesthetic practice and photography and works as a freelance curator and author for photography.
Judith Geffert is a freelance radio author and cultural scientist. She researches lesbian counter-publicity in the late GDR and the transition period and contributed an accompanying text for the Luise Schröder's artist book Strömungen in Bewegung.
The event is part of the public program of EMOP 2025
and Berlin Artistic Research Programme.
Link to Audio Play Kontaktanzeigen
EMOP - European Month of Photography
Exhibition
Immer laut zu sagen, was ist und ich will
March 2–27, 2025
Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung
Uferstr. 13, 13357 Berlin
OPENING: Saturday, March 1st, 2025, 3pm
Opening hours: Tue & Wed 11am–6pm Uhr and by appointment
Special EMOP opening hours: Sunday, March 2, 2025, 11am–6pm
In her photographic installation Immer laut zu sagen, was ist und ich will (engl. Always saying out loud what’s up and I want), Luise Schröder deals with the often forgotten activities of women’s and lesbian groups in the GDR in the 1980s/90s, addressing forms of self-empowerment and resistance, as well as the tense relationship between the past and the present.
Link to the exhibition on EMOP Website
and link to the Berlin Artistic Research Programme.
Artist Book Strömungen in Bewegung
Just arrived
After more than a year of work...I am very happy, that my new artist book
Strömungen in Bewegung has just arrived in Berlin!
Luise Schröder: Strömungen in Bewegung
Designed by Anika Rosen and published by FOTOHOF>EDITION.
Texts: Luise Schröder and Judith Geffert
Flexcover, 304 pages, Number of Copies: 500
38 Euros
Available from March 2025 via: publikation@luiseschroeder.org
and via FOTOHOF>EDITION
Thematically as well as aesthetically the artist book Strömungen in Bewegung illuminates the experiences and activities of non-governmental women's and lesbian groups in the GDR of the 1980s and 1990s. Artistically edited and altered by Luise Schröder, the image and text material used in the publication originates from the GrauZone collection of the Archive of the GDR Opposition and the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive & Library. The artist not only deals with historical gaps, but also looks at archives as powerful institutions. By placing strategies of self-empowerment and feminist resistance practices in relation to the present, the artist book enables plural and alternative perspectives on GDR history. The publication Strömungen in Bewegung will be officially released in March 2025 by FOTOHOF>EDITION and was commissioned, supported and financed by the Berlin Artistic Research Programme, the Stiftung Kunstfonds / Neustart Kultur and the SpallArt Collection.
My special thanks for this project goes to the photographers Leo Tesch, Bettina Dziggel (†), Kerstin Baarmann, Christine Starke, Kerstin Drischner, Mechthild Ziegenhagen and Christina Karstädt. Without their work and commitment to document the present through photography in the 1980s and 1990s, this publication — and the way I view history — would not have been possible. My heartfelt gratitude also goes to Samirah Kenawi, who founded and developed the GrauZone archive collection. I also thank all the women, activists, contemporary witnesses and individuals who have supported and accompanied me in creating this publication: Bärbel Klässner, Ulrike Monnecke, Eva Schäfer, Christiane Baumann, Michaela Beck, Heike Grebin, Katharina Vogel-Gladkowski, Annette Maennel, Alexandra Maria Bühler, Ute Großmann, Nina Großmann, Uta Kehr, Sylke Stübner, Gabi Zekina, Ines Koennen, Grit Sellin, Ina Röder Sissoko, Christina Kurby, Christiane Kloweit, Ev Labsch, Anne Böwe, Sylvia Bork, Sibyll Klotz, Martina Kleppisch, Annett Gröschner, Marina Krug and Karin Dauenheimer. For their collaboration and support during the development of this publication, I am especially grateful to Anika Rosen, Ulrike Hannemann, Katrin Winkler, Andra Spallart, Arne Schmitt, Sophia Kesting, Lysan Buschbeck, Sara Lena Maierhofer, Florian Lamm, Inga Plönnigs, Reymund Schröder, Falk Messerschmidt, Martin Haufe, Anna Breit, Karoline Winter, Vika Kalashnikova, Rike Frank, Judith Geffert, Katalin Erdödi, Elske Rosenfeld, Suza Husse and the authors of the publication wild recuperations. material from below. Dissident Stories from the GDR and pOstdeutschland #1, as well as the Berlin Artistic Research Programme, Katia Reich, Claudia Henne, Nadine Weixler, Michael Mauracher and the FOTOHOF, Christoph Ochs and Sabine Teske from the Robert Havemann Society / Archive of the GDR Opposition, and Lara Ledwa from the Spinnboden Lesbian Archive & Library, Berlin.
