Gallery Talk: Ulrich Wüst’s House Book and East German Memory Culture
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Join MIT Museum curator Gary Van Zante for a discussion of Wüst’s leporello photo books, which interrogate East German memory culture.
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Ages: Adults.
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Cost
This Event is free!
Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the talk. Talks are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.
Location
- In-person only.
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Neighborhood 9
Dates and Times
Wednesday, September 25, 4PM – 4:30PM
Additional information
Always deeply involved with place and memory, the East German–born photographer Ulrich Wüst has found meaning in the contested history and topography of eastern Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With German unification, urban and social change and the memory culture of the former German Democratic Republic became the primary rationale for his work, and his focus shifted from Berlin to the villages and rural landscapes northeast of the city, his home now for half the year.
![An open accordion book with several images of household objects.](/sites/default/files/styles/findit_opportunity_image_large/public/image/event/2024-08/Hausbuch%20%28House%20Book%29_900_600.png?itok=1Nxsu8mu)
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