Berlinzulage – West Berlin / Kunst / 1980er Jahre

Edited by Christoph Tannert

Exhibition catalogue published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, 2018

Texts by Rolf-Peter Baacke, Fritz Balthaus, Hannes Böhringer, Janos Frecot, Michael Haerdter, Udo Heitfeld, Thomas Kapielski, Rolf Langebartels, Anne Peschken, Gundula Schmitz, Hannes Schwenger, Wolfgang Siano, Jacek Slaski, Christoph Tannert, Sabine Vogel, and Claudia Wahjudi

Artists: Fritz Balthaus, Käthe Be, Tabea Blumenschein, Eberhard Bosslet, Michael Brynntrup, Frieder Butzmann, Maria Eichhorn, endart, Jakobine Engel, Janos Frecot , Ulrike Grossarth, Christian Hasucha, Hans Hemmert, Knut Hoffmeister, Michael Hughes, Kain Karawahn, Christina Kubisch, Axel Lieber, Olaf Metzel, Peter Müller, Wolfgang Müller, Anne Peschken/ Marek Pisarsky (Urban Art), Rosa von Praunheim, Raffael Rheinsberg, Gerd Rohling, Otmar Sattel, Eva-Maria Schön, Thomas Schulz, Nanaé Suzuki, Klaus Theuerkauf, Die Tödliche Doris, Hans Hs Winkler, Georg Zey

German/English

17 x 24 cm, 512 p.

“The exhibition project Berlinzulage / West Berlin / Art / 1980s aims to track the artistic strategies and tendencies that could be realized easily at that time, in a context that was distant from the market and indeed scarcely regulated at all. They led to a tremendous expansion of the art concept, regarding both places and protagonists, in theory and practice, the conceptual and the underground.” (Künstlerhaus Bethanien)

I translated the essays and short texts from German to English and did some additional proofreading.