During the 1970s, the artist group Clara Mosch transformed the former socialist model city of Chemnitz, then Karl-Marx-Stadt, in the GDR into an avant-garde happening zone. Silent performances and plenary actions alternated with exuberant art festivals and collaborative works presented in the local Galerie Oben. Through interviews with the protagonists and archival sources, including materials from the Getty Research Institute, filmmaker Sylvie Kürsten sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in East German art history in her new documentary Go Clara Go: The Art of Creative Resistance (Germany, 2025).

Following the screening, the film will be presented in conversation with the filmmaker Sylvie Kürsten, curator Isotta Poggi of the Getty Research Institute, and Wende Museum Chief Curator Joes Segal.