Opening with Margrit Kühl and Christian Halbrock

Two years after the sudden death of photographer Robert Conrad (1962-2023), we would like to commemorate him with two exhibitions in Greifswald.

Robert Conrad grew up in Greifswald and discovered his love of architecture and photography here. He began documenting the changes to the cityscape as early as the 1980s. Away from the state-organized cultural scene, he and his friends also organized ESG events, readings and unauthorized rock and punk concerts in demolished buildings and backyards in Greifswald. He often showed his slides and photographs of the disappearance of Greifswald's old town.
Around 80 photographic works illustrate central aspects of his work, starting with early works in St. Marien from Greifswald in the 1980s, the exhibition in the Koeppenhaus documents Conrad's life from the late GDR regime, from the Wall in Berlin to worldwide journeys to exciting architectures in the new world that was now accessible to him after the Wall came down.

The exhibition is a cooperation between the Koeppenhaus, St. Marien Greifswald and the Robert Havemann Society with the support of Margrit Kühl and many of Robert Conrad's companions.

St. Marien until June 9, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and on Fri, May 16 for the Long Night of the Churches until 10 p.m., admission free
Koeppenhaus until July 3, Tue-Fri 2-6 p.m., special opening for MV Day on Sun, June 22 from 12-4 p.m., admission free

Sat, May 24, 7 p.m., St. Marien - Super 8 films Greifswald in the 80s with Thomas Frick, sounds by Rex Joswig and Pegman (Autumn in Peking)
Wed, June 18, 8 p.m., Koeppenhaus - Film "Berlin Utopiekadaver" documentary about Berlin house projects.
Fri, June 27, 8 p.m., Koeppenhaus, concert performance for the Long Evening of the Greifswald Galleries

Photo above: Colonia Marina XXVIII Ottobre (c) Robert Conrad, Robert Havemann Gesellschaft
below: Schuhagen with St. Mary's Church, 1985 (c) Robert Conrad, Robert Havemann Society