PostOst Re:Vision

The exhibition "PostOst Re:Vision" focuses on the artistic examination of experiences in the context of PostOst in Germany. The term "PostOst" describes the realities of life of people with family migration histories from Eastern European, South-Eastern European countries, the Caucasus and Central Asia in relation to interwoven identities and histories as well as cultural self-positioning.

The group exhibition brings together eight artists who, based on their hybrid identities, diverse experiences and cultural backgrounds, open up a space for dialog - about origin and homeland, memory and new beginnings, about dissonances, hierarchies, belonging and the feeling of being in between. With paintings, film, installation, sculptural and performative works, Kunstraum hase29 paints a multi-layered picture of PostOst in Germany that encompasses both individual stories and collective experiences. Re:Vision stands for consciously looking back and re-evaluating, an artistic act of seeing, questioning and thinking ahead - without claiming interpretative sovereignty or completeness.

However, "PostOst Re:Vision" is more than just an exhibition: visitors are invited to engage with complex and often ambivalent relationships around questions of identity, belonging and cultural transformation - and also to enter into a conversation about their own biography and lived experience.

The term "PostOst" is a self-designation that emerged in 2019 and has become more and more established, so that it is now part of the post-migrant and decolonial discourse. On the one hand, it encompasses complex collective histories and experiences in relation to the various groups from the former socialist area and, on the other, in relation to individual multiple affiliations. PostOst makes diversity visible and creates counter-narratives to foreign designations such as "post-Soviet", "post-socialist", "from the Eastern Bloc" or the generalization "Russian".

Artists:inside: Agil Abdullayev, Viki Berg, Melanie Harder, Ksti Hu, Lisa Jarzyński, Darja Linder, Saša Tatić, Faina Yunusova

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