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"Twenty years ago, in the annus mirabilis 1989, the opening of the Iron Curtain marked the upheaval of an epoch that ushered in the end of the Cold War and created an entirely novel geopolitical and mass-psychological situation. The breath of history wafted through the collective consciousness, and an incredulous Wow! was on everybody’s lips. Utopias were buried, and new, hitherto undreamt-of scenarios of the future unfolded. Cold and hot wars and the routine of Communist oppression and shortage were followed by a period of ruptures in which various nationalist and religious fundamentalist movements returned, while the current financial crisis nurtures doubts concerning the functional efficiency of a socially irresponsible predatory capitalism"--p. web Kunsthalle.