Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
ChertLüdde
When a political system collapses, many an artistic practice goes down with it. This is obviously the case for those who were affiliated with the ruling power and its ideology, but the same is often true for the underground artist working in resistance to them. Such artists face the threat of a twofold damnatio memoriae: Forced to work in hiding, excluded from access to a state-regulated art infrastructure, they are usually known to a small circle onlyeither at home or abroad. Come the revolution, however, external interest in this oppositional art also often dwindles. This was, for