ifa Agora
Network, Collection, Archive. Art
The ifa Agora is the central platform for the network, collection and archive of ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) in the field of art. It is a place of transcultural exchange – just as the agora in ancient Greece was a city’s most important meeting place and marketplace. It shows ifa’s relationships and brings them together online.
Productive Unrest: Art, the public and alternative culture in the field of tension of the IX. and X. Art Exhibition of the GDR in the 80s
Productive Unrest: Art, the public and alternative culture in the field of tension of the IX. and X. Art Exhibition of the GDR in the 80s As in many places, the 1980s in Dresden were a turbulent and restless period, full of contradictions, conflicts and new beginnings. Which forms of artistic expression gained a foothold, and of which quality were the new relationships which emerged between the arts and their audience, both within and beyond state control? The exhibition Productive Unrest takes a closer look at selected works of art, photography and alternative culture from this period, which seem to resonate the emerging social changes.