Questioning at Point Zero

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When Belarus was still a blank spot on the map, there was already an idiosyncratic, heterogeneous cultural scene that created spaces in which ideas of a life that was not controlled took shape. Under the unfavorable conditions of the rigid system, fixated on the Soviet past, a parallel society was able to develop, in niches, invisible to many. The repressions that have swept the country and traumatized society since the crushing of the white-red-white protests have also dissolved these niches. In a conversation with editor Katharina Raabe, Iryna Herasimovich offers insights into this scene.

"... es steht alles sehr zweifelhaft auf dem Lande." Explorations in Wiepersdorf

Special exhibition by Dr. Iris Berndt

Achim von Arnim (1781–1831) reports in his letters about his work as a farmer and landowner of Wiepersdorf. The art historian Dr. Iris Berndt, a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf, is inspired by this to search for traces and builds a bridge to the present. She researches and inquires, photographs and paints. Objects from the collection of the Jüterbog Museum complement the exhibition. It deals with urgent questions of how we deal with the natural riches in nature and landscape.

Open Studios

Antje Blumenstein, Susanne Gabler and Pablo Schlumberger give insight into their studio work.

Science – Ecology – Activism. Eva Horn and Klaus Dörre

Ecological problems are - from an economic point of view - consequences of the capitalist economy as a disastrous management of the earth. From the perspective of the Anthropocene debates in cultural studies, however, ecological questions can lead to a fundamental repositioning of man in the world as well as his perception of this world. In the conversation between the literature and cultural studies scholar Eva Horn and the economic sociologist Klaus Dörre, these different perspectives are conveyed.