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Courage: Sisters in Spirit
The Prater Galerie's reopening show: eight women artists, pairing GDR-era collection works by Jetelová, Vent and Schulze Eldowy with contemporaries from Eastern Europe.
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In Magdalena Jetelová's The Continuation of Endgame (1996), a couple dances in a living room beside a fitted kitchen while the others sit and watch. It comes from the collection of the GDR's Centre for Art Exhibitions, whose staff used to select and buy work at this gallery, and whose purchases left women underrepresented.
The reopening show flips that: all eight artists are women. Jetelová, Eva Vent and Gundula Schulze Eldowy, from that old collection now held by the ifa, hang alongside contemporaries from Eastern Europe. Lesia Pcholka joined the protests in Belarus, served a prison sentence and now lives in exile in Berlin. Luise Schröder works from years of research into East German feminist groups.
You can walk in off Kastanienallee without a ticket: entry is free, and the whole show is on the ground floor. It is open Wednesday to Monday, 12:00 to 20:00. The curators lead free tours on 11 November and 16 December at 18:00, no booking needed.
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Back on Kastanienallee after years of renovation, the Prater Galerie reopens with eight women artists: GDR-era works by Magdalena Jetelová, Eva Vent and Gundula Schulze Eldowy beside contemporaries from Eastern Europe.
Look for
Magdalena Jetelová, The Continuation of Endgame (1996)
A large black-and-white scene from the ifa collection: a couple dancing in a living room next to a fitted kitchen, watched by people seated in the shadows.
Luise Schröder, Sie hatte sich angewöhnt, keine Angst zu haben (2026)
Look up for blue printed fabric banners hung from the ceiling, showing a woman's face and a clenched hand with the words "Wir sind" and "traurig, aber".
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
With kids
Entry is free for all ages, and the whole show is on the ground floor, step-free through the side entrance at the Pratergarten gate.
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Image credits
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- Courage: Sisters in Spirit© Magdalena Jetelová; Foto: Michael Lapuks
- Carola Lampe: Tell Me What To See© Carola Lampe
- Ida Gerhardi – “… and everyone was dancing!”Courtesy of Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin
- The Anonymous Project by Lee Shulman: No Place Like Home© Lee Shulman / The Anonymous Project. Courtesy of Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière
- Prater GalerieAidexxx / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0