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What is Free Berlin about?

An alternative history of art in Berlin, detaching artistic innovation from art world narratives and connecting it instead to collective creativity and social solidarity. In pre- and post-reunification Berlin, socially engaged artists championed collective art making and creativity over individual advancement, transforming urban space and civic life in the process. During the Cold War, the city’s state of exception invited artists on both sides of the Wall to detour from artistic tradition; post-Wall, art became a tool of resistance against the orthodoxy of economic growth. In Free Berlin , Briana Smith explores the everyday peculiarities, collective joys, and grassroots provocations of experimental artists in late Cold War Berlin and their legacy in today’s city. These artists worked intentionally outside the art market, believing that art should be everywhere, freed from its confinement in museums and galleries. They used art as a way to imagine... Contents 6 Introduction: Berlin’s Provincial Avant-Garde 7 Part I: Democratizing Art and Transforming Space in Late Cold War Berlin 19 1 “CULTURE for All” and Experimental Practice in Divided Berlin 20 2 The Free Scene and the Island

Author

Briana J. Smith

Publisher

MIT Press

Language

EN