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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