Future History Museum: Pioniere von Marzahn

(Berlin, 21 April 2015)

Future History Museum: Pioniere von Marzahn
Inscribed Rituals – Bodies in Politics

Opening 28 April 2015, 5-8pm
Duration: 29.4.-14.6.2015

A DISTRICT exhibition in the Bezirksmuseum Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Bezirksmuseum Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Building 2: Alt-Marzahn 55, 12685 Berlin
Opening times: Monday-Friday 11am-5pm and Sunday 11am-5pm

On 28 April 2015 DISTRICT Berlin opens the exhibition Future History Museum: Pioneers of Marzahn at the Bezirksmuseum Marzahn-Hellersdorf.
The Future History Museum: Pioneers of Marzahn shows a constellation of texts, videos, drawings, sound recordings, surveys, banners and notations that have arisen from the artistic-performative engagement with Marzahn’s socialist past undertaken by the art and educational initiative Pioneers of Marzahn.

For over six months Marzahn children worked with the artists and choreographers Juliane Schmidt, Anna Till, Emma Haugh and Emma Waltraudt Howes to search for traces of the former pioneers in their every day environment and among their fellows. As a part of the interdisciplinary art and performance project The Forgotten Pioneer Movement (2.10. – 29.11.2014), the project The Pioneers of Marzahn: Inscribed Rituals - Bodies in Politics devotes itself to a choreographic exploration of socialist ritual as well as everyday gestures and ways in which they are inscribed in corporeal memory.

The former 'Haus der Pioniere' (House of Pioneers) in Marzahn was the research center and setting for the local historical explorations. The Future History Museum: Pioneers of Marzahn brings evidence of the artist-initiated re-imagination of history back in the museum. In unexplored proximities with archival documents from the district collection, the young “artifacts” put forth other stories and new relationships between history, the present, and the future.

An art and educational project within the framework of The Forgotten Pioneer Movement.

DISTRICT in cooperation with the youth center FAIR, Galerie M, Grundschule an der Geißenweide, Peter-Pan-Grundschule and Bezirksmuseum Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Supported through the Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and Künste Öffnen Welten, a program of the Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V. (Federal Association of children and youth education e.V.) of the programme Kultur macht stark by the Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Federal ministry for education and research). Exhibition architecture: Lorenzo Sandoval, dissident desire, 2013.