GEPLANTE UTOPIE von Silke Koch
For her installation conceived for the Berlin Weekly showcase, the artist Silke Koch, born in Leipzig in 1964, draws on personal spatial experiences from her youth as well as her early photographic works and her collection of black-and-white postcards from the former GDR. These two points of reference highlight the architecture of the so-called “East Modernism”, which by definition was intended to embody the progress of the GDR’s political system and the utopian idea of a better society.
Koch confronts the futuristic competition between systems, in urban planning as well as in society, with a central question: How can architecture shape public space and how does the occupation of public spaces itself become the objective of historical processes?
