Toni Mau (1917-1981) | Schloss Biesdorf in Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Toni Mau (1917-1981) – Graphics from the Museum Utopie und Alltag

Exhibition flyer using a work by the artist: Toni Mau, Mikroleben II, 1977, colour rough surface print, 37.5 x 50.0 cm, Museum Utopie und Alltag, photo: Thomas Kläber, 2022.

Toni Mau, Jellyfish, 1976, colour silkscreen, 40.0 x 30.0 cm, Museum Utopie und Alltag, photo: Thomas Kläber, 2022

Toni Mau, Breakfast in the Field, 1962, colour silkscreen, 42.0 x 61.0 cm, Museum Utopie und Alltag, photo: Thomas Kläber, 2022

June 13, 2022 to August 21, 2022
Vernissage on June 12, 2022, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Toni Mau's graphic art is a discovery. Her silkscreen prints from the 1970s surprise and impress with poetic imagination, humour, a visible joy in experimentation and high printmaking quality. Toni from Berlin was a painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Her graphic works from the holdings of the Beeskow Art Archive are presented comprehensively for the first time in the exhibition. In East Berlin, the artist created several building-related works, but the creative power and experimental spirit of her free works received little public recognition in the GDR. The exhibition also features building-related works by Toni Mau in recent photographs by Martin Maleschka.

The Museum Utopie und Alltag (Museum Utopia and Everyday Life) unites the Documentation Centre for Everyday Culture of the GDR in Eisenhüttenstadt and the Beeskow Art Archive – institutions supported by the Oder-Spree district and funded by the state of Brandenburg.

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