Prefabricated buildings still characterize the image of East German cities today - as places to live, projection surfaces and cultural ciphers. The exhibition Wohnkomplex. Art and Life in Prefabricated Buildings at MINSK examines artistic perspectives on these multi-layered spaces and tells of memory, transformation and lived reality in the shadow of history.
Originally, the Plattenbau was the heart of GDR social policy, a place of socialization and a symbol of real socialist progress - until 1989. With the fall of communism, it became the scene of painful transformations and a symbol of social decline and racist violence. As ruins, the buildings awaited demolition, were renovated or rebuilt. How are the East German prefabricated housing estates dealt with in art? The group exhibition Wohnkomplex. Art and Life in Prefabricated Housing by guest curator Kito Nedo at MINSK from fall 2025.
The exhibition presents installations, paintings, drawings, photographs and films created between the 1970s and today. The Plattenbau has never become a monument, but has remained a living presence. It is a GDR place of remembrance where living continues.
September 6, 2025 to February 8, 2026
