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Posted 11.03.09 | PERMALINK | ESSAY

Frieder Schnock & Renata Stih: Open Space: Berlin After Reunification

This memorial hasn't been considered yet: the Memorial for Foreign Workers, euphemistically called guest workers/Gastarbeiter. After 1945 European migrant workers like Italians, Croats, Portuguese, Greeks, Spaniards and Turks were instrumental in creating West-German's Wirtschaftswunder / economic miracle.

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ABOUT THE ESSAY

Open Space: Berlin After Reunification
Berlin-based artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock curate an online gallery to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Renata Stih is a Berlin-based conceptual artist, who explores how memory functions in the social sphere and how it is reflected symbolically in the space of the city.
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