When can the exhibition be visited?

The exhibition can be visited on October 4, 2026, from 10 AM to 7 PM.

Where does the exhibition take place?

The exhibition takes place at the DAS MINSK Art House in Potsdam, Max-Planck-Straße 10, 14473 Potsdam.

How much is the entrance fee?

The regular admission for adults is 10 euros. A reduced admission costs 8 euros.

What works are on display?

About 150 paintings, drawings, collages, and objects from more than three decades of Annemirl Bauer's artistic creation will be shown.

Are there tours through the exhibition?

Public tours and thematic guided tours of the exhibition are offered as part of DAS MINSK's accompanying program.

Is the exhibition an indoor event?

Yes, the exhibition takes place indoors at the DAS MINSK Art House in Potsdam.

Annemirl Bauer at DAS MINSK Potsdam 2026

Name: Annemirl Bauer at DAS MINSK
Start: 2026-10-04T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-04T19:00:00+02:00
Location: DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam

Annemirl Bauer: An uncompromising voice of GDR art at DAS MINSK

At the DAS MINSK art house in Potsdam, visitors encounter an artist whose work closely connects personal experience, societal observation, and political resistance. The comprehensive retrospective is dedicated to Annemirl Bauer and showcases a distinctive position of GDR art, whose art historical significance has long been inadequately recognized.

A multifaceted body of work between painting and resistance

Approximately 150 paintings, drawings, collages, and objects span more than three decades of artistic creation – from the late 1950s until Bauer’s early death in 1989. The exhibition reveals how consistently the artist translated her immediate life world into a visual language. Her works combine expressive painting, striking drawing, fragmented collage, and object-like materials into an art form that does not ignore societal conflicts.

Gender roles, human rights, and social justice

In four thematically structured chapters, the curation unfolds central questions of Bauer’s oeuvre: gender relations in patriarchal power structures, self-empowerment, human rights, environmental destruction, and state oppression. Her images do not appear merely as historical documents. They develop a contemporary urgency as they focus on power, exclusion, and individual agency.

Aesthetic experience and political observation

The viewing of the works in the museum opens an art experience that balances concentrated observation and emotional immediacy. Colors, lines, overlays, and the materiality of the collages create a dynamic exhibition atmosphere. Bauer saw herself as a painter and at the same time as an attentive chronicler of her time. She documented personal and political events in a diary-like manner and transformed them into a distinctive visual language.

Art historical context and curation

Annemirl Bauer was born in 1939 in Jena, lived and worked in Berlin and Brandenburg, and died in 1989 in East Berlin. The retrospective presents her as a critical, independent voice from the GDR and as a local artist of supra-regional significance. The exhibition is curated by Marie Gerbaulet, supported by Luisa Bachmann, in close cooperation with Amrei Bauer, estate administrator and founder and director of the Annemirl Bauer House in Niederwerbig.

Cultural education at DAS MINSK

DAS MINSK connects exhibition, art historical mediation, and public discussions with the history of a unique place in Potsdam. Public tours and thematic guided tours deepen the engagement with Bauer’s artistic self-assertion, the societal conditions of the GDR, and the aesthetic strategies of her painting. Thus, the exhibition becomes a place of cultural education and collective reflection.

Conclusion: An exhibition that draws present from history

The retrospective on Annemirl Bauer offers an intense aesthetic experience and a precise view of an artist who resolutely opposed political repression and social injustice. Art enthusiasts can expect an impressive connection of painting, drawing, collage, biography, and contemporary history. Those who wish to experience the power of independent art firsthand should visit this exhibition at DAS MINSK live.