La Villette

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall in January 1990 almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artistsincluding Jürgen Böttcher the Autoperforation Artists AG Geige Via Lewandowsky Trak Wendisch Conny Hege Klaus Killisch Helga Paris and Hanns Schimanskypresented works rarely shown in the GDR at the exhibition space in the former La Villette slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Paris