Museum Utopie und Alltag

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Location Eisenhüttenstadt

Erich-Weinert-Allee 3
15890 Eisenhüttenstadt

Opening hours

Tuesday to Sunday, national holidays
11.00 – 17.00

If the national holiday is on a Monday, the museum is open. Closed on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, New Year, even on Mondays.
The exhibitions are barrier-free. An elevator and a barrier-free toilet are available.

Entrance

Adults: € 4
Concessions: € 2*

Groups: € 40**
Guided tours: € 30 / 50 ***
Schulprojekte:  €15 plus 1 € p. P

*Pupils, Students, disabled  persons, Seniors; Children aged under 7: free
** up to 20 people
*** up to 12 people
Tue-Fr: € 30 € / Sa-So: € 50

Location Beeskow

Spreeinsel
Access via Burg Beeskow
Frankfurter Strasse 23
15848 Beeskow

Guided tours Art Archive:

The Archive in Beeskow can be visited on guided tours. Please see our programme for details. In addition to public guided tours during the current event programme, it is also possible to book special tours.
Please contact us in advance at: +49 (0)3366 – 352727

Entrance

Per person: € 9
Concessions: € 7*

Special guided tours:
€ 26 per group, plus entrance per person
*Pupils, Students, disabled  persons
** up to 20 people

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Museum Utopie und Alltag

Tel: 03364 – 417 355
Fax: 03364 – 418 947
museum@utopieundalltag.de

Postal and invoice adress:
Landkreis Oder-Spree
Kunstarchiv / DOK
Breitscheidstr. 7
15848 Beeskow

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Contact Press:

Sandra Seidel
E-Mail: sandra.seidel@l-os.de
Telefon: 03364 – 505 2747

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Building-related art of the GDR in the state of Brandenburg
25.01.2023—08.12.2023
ČSSR, Malá Fatra-Gebirge 1974. Photo: Werner Großmann (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-P0215-419)

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Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces

Adress: Kulturforum, Kunstgewerbemuseum
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

 

25.03.2023 to 16.07.2023
Tue-Fri  10.00 – 18.00, Sat-Sun 11.00 -18.00

 

Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces is a collaborative exhibition project that looks at the role and influence of design in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc and former Yugoslavia between the 1950s and the 1980s.

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An innovative network of curators and institutions has come together to open up new and surprising insights into the complex facets of the design landscape of a region that remains unknown to the broader (and in particular Western) public. With their extensive research work, the forces behind Retrotopia are making a decisive contribution to a long-overdue re-evaluation of the global and decolonial history of design.

Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces was initiated by the Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in collaboration with: the Museum of Utopia and Daily Life (Beeskow/Eisenhüttenstadt), the Slovakian Design Center (Bratislava), the Slovak National Gallery Bratislava, the Moravian Gallery (Brno), the Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), the M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art (Kaunas), Museum of Contemporary Art NGO (Kyiv), Stedley Art Foundation (Kyiv), the Museum of Architecture and Design (Ljubljana), the National Gallery Prague, the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (Tallinn), NGO Imago of Culture (Uzhorod), the Lithuanian National Museum of Art (Vilnius), the National Museum in Warsaw, and the Museum of Arts and Crafts (Zagreb), Chernihiv Monumentalism Community, ARWM Cultural Heritage Conservation Fund.

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wohnmaschine 4.0

Adress: Bauhaus-Museum Weimar
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1
99423 Weimar

 

01.04.2023 to 29.01.2024
We–Mo 9.30–18.00
opening: 31.3.2023, 18 Uhr

 

As part of the special exhibition „Wege nach Utopia. Wohnen zwischen Sehnsucht und Krise“ in the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar, the artist Martin Maleschka from Eisenhüttenstadt borrows a total of 1,111 everyday objects from our holdings. Based on the cubature of the Haus am Horn, which is celebrating its 100th birthday this year, he will set up a larger-than-life installation (Wohnmaschine 4.0) with this fund.

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How do we want to live in the future? The exhibition in the Bauhaus Museum will examine aspects of this question between the two poles of longing and current crisis. Central to this are the topics of sustainability and social justice. “How do we want to live?” was, according to Gropius, the most pressing question of the day in 1923/1924.

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Ausschnitt: Erika Stürmer-Alex, o. T., 1980/81, Rüdersdorf, Foto: Martin Maleschka,
Ausschnitt: Erika Stürmer-Alex, o. T., 1980/81, Rüdersdorf, Foto: Martin Maleschka,
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Address: Landtag Brandenburg
Alter Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

 

25.01.2023-08.12.2023

Mon-Fri 8.00 -18.00

 

Whether in Potsdam or Cottbus, in Eisenhüttenstadt or Dedelow – in many places in the state of Brandenburg there are numerous examples of building-related art that represent the East German history of art in public space in all its diversity. A cultural heritage in the middle of everyday life!

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Together with the photographer and author Martin Maleschka, Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege and Archäologisches Landesmuseum, the Museum of Utopia and Daily Life shows how art-rich Brandenburg is and at the same time addresses the responsibilities associated with this heritage.

The exhibition can be visited from 25 January to 8 December 2023, Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Landtag in Potsdam. It is closed on public holidays.

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ČSSR, Malá Fatra-Gebirge 1974. Foto: Werner Großmann (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-P0215-419)

26.06.2022 to 30.04.2023
Tue-Sun 11.00 – 17.00

 

During the Cold War, an “Iron Curtain” ran through Europe, but even the borders between “friendly Socialist countries” were politically sensitive and only allowed limited international movement.

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In the 1960s, rules became more relaxed, but a true breakthrough came in 1972: the GDR, ČSSR and Poland introduced laws permitting cross-border travel without a passport or visa. In the very first year of their introduction, millions of people took advantage of the new regulations, going on holidays, day trips and shopping tours to neighbouring countries.

The exhibition highlights these diverse travel experiences, going beyond the “Borders of Friendship”. It presents material evidence of tourism from the collection of the Museum of Utopia and Daily Life, other collections and archives, as well as private loans: including travel catalogues, posters, maps, holiday souvenirs, postcards, photo albums and 35 mm films.

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Ausschnitt: Erika Stürmer-Alex, o. T., 1980/81, Rüdersdorf, Foto: Martin Maleschka,
Ausschnitt: Erika Stürmer-Alex, o. T., 1980/81, Rüdersdorf, Foto: Martin Maleschka,
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Address: Landtag Brandenburg
Alter Markt 1
14467 Potsdam

 

25.01.2023-08.12.2023

Mon-Fri 8.00 -18.00

 

Whether in Potsdam or Cottbus, in Eisenhüttenstadt or Dedelow – in many places in the state of Brandenburg there are numerous examples of building-related art that represent the East German history of art in public space in all its diversity. A cultural heritage in the middle of everyday life!

Learn more

 

Together with the photographer and author Martin Maleschka, Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege and Archäologisches Landesmuseum, the Museum of Utopia and Daily Life shows how art-rich Brandenburg is and at the same time addresses the responsibilities associated with this heritage.

The exhibition can be visited from 25 January to 8 December 2023, Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Landtag in Potsdam. It is closed on public holidays.

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ČSSR, Malá Fatra-Gebirge 1974. Foto: Werner Großmann (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-P0215-419)

26.06.2022 to 30.04.2023
Tue-Sun 11.00 – 17.00

 

During the Cold War, an “Iron Curtain” ran through Europe, but even the borders between “friendly Socialist countries” were politically sensitive and only allowed limited international movement.

Learn more

In the 1960s, rules became more relaxed, but a true breakthrough came in 1972: the GDR, ČSSR and Poland introduced laws permitting cross-border travel without a passport or visa. In the very first year of their introduction, millions of people took advantage of the new regulations, going on holidays, day trips and shopping tours to neighbouring countries.

The exhibition highlights these diverse travel experiences, going beyond the “Borders of Friendship”. It presents material evidence of tourism from the collection of the Museum of Utopia and Daily Life, other collections and archives, as well as private loans: including travel catalogues, posters, maps, holiday souvenirs, postcards, photo albums and 35 mm films.

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November Erkundungen, Grafikmappe mit Arbeiten von Falko Behrendt und Joachim Lautenschläger, 1988; Museum Utopie und Alltag, Foto: Armin Herrmann
November Erkundungen, Grafikmappe mit Arbeiten von Falko Behrendt und Joachim Lautenschläger, 1988; Museum Utopie und Alltag, Foto: Armin Herrmann

The Museum of Utopia and Daily Life and the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst (BLMK) are showing portfolios of prints from the GDR in an exhibition at three locations – Eisenhüttenstadt, Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder). The starting point for this joint project is the holdings of over 320 portfolios in the Beeskow Art Archive and the BLMK. In Eisenhüttenstadt, the focus is on the revolutions, in Cottbus on the topic or motif of literature, and in Frankfurt (Oder) the diversity of landscape views is explored.

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The revolutions that artists have addressed in their prints include not only the October Revolution and the Peasants’ War, but also the November-, the French- and the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. The selected etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and silkscreens convey a complex, sometimes critical approach to historical events that can still be relevant.
Portfolios of prints from the GDR

An exhibition in three places:

Revolutions, Museum of Utopia and Daily Life in Eisenhüttenstadt, June 3 – October 8, 2023 (opening on June 2, 2023)
Prometheus und Co., BLMK Cottbus, June 4 – August 20, 2023 (opening on June 3, 2023)
Between arcadia and residential area, BLMK Frankfurt (Oder), June 4 – August 20, 2023 (opening on June 4, 2023)

A cooperation between the Brandenburgische Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst and the Museum of Utopia and Everyday Life.

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U5, KARO, Kette und Ring, 2014

Address:
Ausstellungspavillon des Brandenburgischen Kunstvereins Potsdam e. V
Freundschaftsinsel Potsdam
Hermann-Elflein-Straße 18
14467 Potsdam

 

I love Clark

Opening: 26 January 2023, starting 6 pm
Curated by Helene Romakin and Lea Schleiffenbaum
The exhibition is supported by the Landeshauptstadt Potsdam, das Museum für Utopie und Alltag, Beeskow und Eisenhüttenstadt, and ProHelvetia.

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Two cultures collided in 1989: daily life in the East and daily life in the West, in the various materials and forms that shaped their distinct lives. Today, if you look back, you may still detect overlaps, especially in the design of commonplace items like typewriters, kitchen mixers, and razors. While the Western world was predominately positioned above the Eastern world, the memory of the objects persisted there. The Dokumentationszentrum Alltagskultur der DDR (Documentation Center for Everyday Culture of the GDR ) in Eisenhüttenstadt, which is now the Museum für Utopie und Alltag (Museum for Utopia and Everyday Life), started collecting these objects with the help of citizens shortly after the fall of the Wall.

The artists’ collective U5 looked through the extensive collection at the invitation of curators Helene Romakin and Lea Schleiffenbaum. The purpose was to enable access through the morphology of things and products rather than to remeasure present history. In contrast to its utilitarian characteristics, morphology is more interested in the shape of an object (or work of art). What draws people to view or use the object? What connotations does it have? U5 combines their own miniatures, sculptures, ceramics, and non-German everyday items with items from the Documentation Center for Everyday Culture of the GDR in this exhibition. In doing so, they strip the GDR artifacts of their historical context. A recent video piece furthermore highlights the various narrative levels of the artifacts and shows their backgrounds. The show explores how old conversations can be reinterpreted, which stories are remembered and lost, and what more is left of youth’s yearnings than perfume, dripping candles, eggnog, and ozone records.

 

With I love Clark, U5 takes listeners through associations and recollections, where the superimposition of realities and presences allows for fresh interpretations and connections. Through a find of slides titled “Pictures from Antarctica” from the former German Central Institute for Teaching Materials Berlin in the collection holdings, U5 unfolded a possible approach via the Georg-Forster Antarctic Research Station established by the GDR in 1976. After the Berlin Wall fell between the political systems, the station, located 15,000 kilometers from home, persisted for several years. It did so by surviving the state in which it was created. Behind it are the scientific ozone measurements from the GDR that are well-regarded. Another story ran concurrently, detailing how female researchers traveled from the FRG to the distant Georg-von-Neumayer-Station.

The exhibition is supported by the Landeshauptstadt Potsdam, das Museum für Utopie und Alltag, Beeskow und Eisenhüttenstadt, and ProHelvetia. We also sincerely thank Gabriele Fritzsche of Casino Perfume Saxonia.

The exhibition is supported by the Landeshauptstadt Potsdam, das Museum für Utopie und Alltag, Beeskow und Eisenhüttenstadt, and ProHelvetia. We also sincerely thank Gabriele Fritzsche of Casino Perfume Saxonia.

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