19 June 2026 — 6 December 2026

Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen (Showing up and Not Remaining Silent)

For more than five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has engaged with questions of justice, gender and self-determination. Her own body often plays a central role in her work – not as an object, but as a site of resistance and feminist self-assertion. Dabei sein und nicht schweigen (Showing up and Not Remaining Silent) is the artist’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date. Stötzer’s practice is inseparable from her social and political commitment. In 1976 she was detained for organising a petition, which the GDR authorities declared a “defamation of the state”. After a year in prison she joined the literary and artistic underground and later co-founded the artists’ collective Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt. Many of her works formulate radical counter-concepts to state repression and control, pushing boundaries through experimentation and making space for vulnerability and desire. With around 150 works, the exhibition highlights the diversity of her œuvre – painting, literature, photography, textile art, Super 8 film, performance and public interventions – and aims to catalyse the long-overdue broader recognition of this groundbreaking artist. Stötzer is also one of the key artistic voices in the programme marking the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele. Curated by Julia Grosse, with Christopher Wierling. The exhibition will travel to Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, where it is on view from 14 March to 26 September 2027.

Gropius Bau