- Exhibition
- Friseur der Botschaft, Berlin-Mitte
- 1992
The 'Museum für Geschichte' (Museum of History) is based on an idea by Harald Fricke for an exhibition project. As part of ‘richtig 92’, this idea was developed in collaboration with members of the Botschaft and the artists and realised in a series of exhibitions that took place from August to October 1992 in the Friseur der Botschaft.
The title in relation to the dimension of the event was already part of the concept. A museum claims to be universally valid and complete. An institution that supports the objectivity and unassailability of state historiography by all means. Expectations of a museum were deliberately built up in advance so that they could be denied in the end. The poster used an excavator as a symbol, stylised as in a children's construction kit. It stands for digging through history, not just as a metaphor, because at that time in Berlin, history was being made with excavators, dug up, recreated, but also ignored, buried and destroyed. The artists who finally agreed to participate organised exhibitions across all media. The history of the cheat sheet in a museum presentation. An installation with computers that produced new captions using a random generator, as well as documentation and a slide show of the protest actions at the BELFA battery plant, which was threatened with closure, are just a few examples of the wide range of exhibits. Various scientific and culturally theoretical lectures, for example on archives or the future tense (‘it will have been’), were also included in the planning.
Participants: Wolfgang Müller, Fritz von Klinggräff, Helmut Höge BELFA, Adib Fricke, Fritz Balthaus, Bettina Alamoda/Wolgang Anklam, Peter Bexte, Peter Hartmann, T. Schmitz
Poster of the exhibition series "Museum für Geschichte" (Museum of History) from the own screen printing studio