Giovanni Anselmo (*1934) fulfilled the contractual requirement of the two-part design but decided against public space and converted two interior rooms into a white cube: In East Berlin, he used the apartment of graphic designer Grischa Meyer, on the third floor of Pasteurstrasse 40 in the Prenzlauer Berg district. All furniture was removed from the room. The word “PARTICOLARE” was projected in white capital letters onto baseboards and walls, which literally became part of the work. The slide highlighted inconspicuous details and shone on visitors who stepped into the projection’s beam. The work refers to the special political situation inscribed within it. (…) ​In 1990, Meyer was responsible for the exhibition’s graphic design and made his Prenzlauer Berg apartment available to Anselmo. With the art historian and journalist Sarah Alberti, who reconstructed the project as part of her doctoral thesis on the basis of archive material and interviews with eyewitnesses, he remembers the summer of 1990 at its original exhibition location. He lived in the apartment until the end of March 2021, and even 31 years later, drill holes are old proof of Anselmo’s installation. The work, the exhibition title Die Endlichkeit der Freiheit, and the retreat into the apartment have all gained unexpected currency in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Abstract from Text: Sarah Alberti Translation: Kimberly Bradley Full length: https://www.diebalkone.net/sarah-alberti-grischa-meyer