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Simon Wachsmuth “From Heaven High”

29.4.2026

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Still from Simon Wachsmuth, From Heaven High, 2025, courtesy Simon Wachsmuth and Zilberman, Istanbul/Berlin
Still from Simon Wachsmuth, From Heaven High, 2025, courtesy Simon Wachsmuth and Zilberman, Istanbul/Berlin
29.4.26
Contemporary intervention as part of the Dada exhibition

Accompanying the exhibition “Open your minds at last!” Dada as political art between the world wars we are presenting Simon Wachsmuth’s video work From Heaven High (2025) as a contemporary intervention within our literature collection.

“To fully comprehend this work of art, one should drill for twelve hours daily—fully equipped for a field march and carrying a packed haversack—on Tempelhofer Feld.” — Caption accompanying John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter, *Prussian Archangel* (1920), ceiling sculpture (lost).

A modern reconstruction of the Prussian Archangel will be on display in the exhibition from May 9 to September 13, 2026.

Simon Wachsmuth will join us for an artist talk with Prof. Dr. Christian Berger on Sunday, July 5, 2026, at 3:00 p.m.

Simon Wachsmuth, From Heaven High, 2025
video work, 30 min., color/black and white, sound

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Unknown photographer, installation view, First International Dada Fair 1920, illustration from Dada Almanac, edited by Richard Hülsenbeck, Berlin 1920, Wassermeyer Collection
Still from Simon Wachsmuth, From Heaven High, 2025, courtesy Simon Wachsmuth and Zilberman, Istanbul/Berlin
Unknown photographer, installation view, First International Dada Fair 1920, illustration from Dada Almanac, edited by Richard Hülsenbeck, Berlin 1920, Wassermeyer Collection
Still from Simon Wachsmuth, From Heaven High, 2025, courtesy Simon Wachsmuth and Zilberman, Istanbul/Berlin

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