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Revisiting Wim Beeren’s European Utopia: Wanderlieder Thirty Years Later
Author(s) -
Joanna Mardal
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
stedelijk studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2405-7177
DOI - 10.54533/stedstud.vol011.art04
Subject(s) - utopia , victory , prosperity , economic history , european union , ideology , exhibition , communism , political science , liberalization , ancient history , history , law , political economy , art history , politics , sociology , international trade , economics
In 1991 the Stedelijk Museum’s director, Wim Beeren, brought together thirteen Western and Eastern European artists in an exhibition titled Wanderlieder.[1] A remarkably ambitious project, it was Beeren’s direct response to the changes that had begun to transform Europe in 1989.[2] In the East of Europe, a series of mostly peaceful revolutions culminated in the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communist rule. In the West, an atmosphere of powerful optimism surrounded the formation of the European Union, which promised more prosperity, cooperation, and lasting peace, and which, for some, symbolized an ideological victory over the East.[3] And, with Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalization of the Soviet Union, new diplomatic relationships could continue to be established in the future. Wanderlieder would open on December 8, 1991—just eighteen days before the dissolution of the Soviet Union would bring a definitive end to the Cold War.

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