The GfZK collection is regularly expanded with donations from artists and patrons as well as support from the Friends of GfZK.
Jens Klein
Ballons
2013
19 photographs, archive carbon print, press printed text, 30×40 cm each
Jens Klein developed his photo series based on images from the Stasi Records authority showing balloons transporting flyers from the FRG into the GDR. Klein underpins the (partially absent) evidential value of the images with information from the meteorological archive on the respective wind conditions. He also questions the interests of the Stasi employees in the processes of creation and composition by integrating one and the same object into his selection of serial images.
The Ballons photo series by Jens Klein was acquired with support from the Friends of the GfZK.