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Beyond'91 - Vernissage der Fotoausstellung

April 27 | 18:00

14 journalists, 7 countries, 1 multimedia website: 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the cafébabel project Beyond '91 – Portrait of the Perestroika generation aims to show the changing social, political and cultural identity of the post-Soviet bloc as viewed from the present day.

The last few years of the Soviet Union brought with them not only a “wind of change” – but also an unexpected baby boom. As the Soviet Union steadily imploded, these so-called “Perestroika babies” were growing up on the far side of the Iron Curtain. While becoming teenagers in a society experiencing chaotic transition, they quickly had to learn what freedom really meant to an era of accelerated capitalism and they had to face up to the fact that the countries they’d been born in no longer existed.

 

Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Beyond '91 – Portrait of the Perestroika generation illustrates the tremendous changes the post-Soviet world is experiencing. Taking the form of a series of seven multimedia, cross-border stories, lifting the veil on how the post-Perestroika generation view themselves, Beyond '91 combines the work of 14 young journalists, photographers and filmmakers from seven countries: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.

 

Beyond '91 is designed to show the changing social, political and cultural identity of the post-Soviet bloc as viewed from the present day: A quarter of a century after the collapse of the Soviet Union, what do young people from that generation resemble today? Do the children of the former USSR still have anything in common? In the context of growing tensions between the east and west of Europe, could a post-Perestroika youth be a bridge between two worlds?

Works from the Beyond ’91 project will be presented in an exhibition. The vernissage takes place on April 27th 2017, 6 pm at Centre Marc Bloch.

The project is supported by Advocate Europe, Allianz Kulturstiftung, the N-Ost network and the Office franco-allemand pour la Jeunesse.

The website can be found here: https://beyond91.cafebabel.co.uk/. It is available in English, French, German, Polish, Italian, Spanish and Russian.

Contact

Sébastien Vannier
sebastien.vannier  ( at )  cmb.hu-berlin.de

Location

Georg-Simmel-Saal
Friedrichstraße 191

10117
Berlin
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