Pictures from Leningrad 1966-67

Wanderlust, youth, commitment, courage, travel, darkness, light and dream of change

In drawings and prints the young Dea Trier Mørch describes - with warm irony and cheerful acceptance - a throng of people and places, experiences and moods from everyday life and special occasions in the Soviet Union of the 1960'ies.

Dea Trier Mørch (1941-2001) - painter and author - is recognized as a dynamic personality on the Danish creative left wing for more than half a century. She was a co-founder and member of the well-known Danish artist collective Red Mother (1969-c. 1980) and became a productive and valued fiction writer in the 1980s and 90s.

In the 1960s Dea Trier Mørch made several study trips to art colleges in Eastern European capitals. The journeys radically strengthened her political commitment to socialism and society critical movements, and she developed an increasingly realistic idiom in her pictures.

In 1966 Dea Trier Mørch received a Soviet research scholarship and went to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to study graphic art techniques at the Art Academy.

Back in Denmark, she wrote an impressionistic travel book "Bitter-Sweet Socialism Soviet Etchings" (1968), a sensuous, poetic and humorous stream of experiences from everyday life in a socialist society expressed in paintings and words.

The exhibition
The exhibition contains the original drawings and etchings used in the travel book as well as a number of other works that recall experiences and people from her time in Leningrad and her travels in the vast country. Her works are often light and playful - and with written Danish and Cyrillic characters as an essential part of the picture story.

Exhibition period: July 6 – September 1, 2013 at The Workers Museum, balcony in the assembly hall.
The balcony exhibition is not be open if/when assembly hall is rented - you are welcome to check in advance by calling the museum, tel. 33 93 25 75.