Top image: ‘Rave After’ by Tilman Brembs

The Red Gallery is currently exhibiting photographic work from post-Wall Berlin. After the Fall – Berlin 1990/2000 documents the microcosmic attitudes and birth of Techno that was facilitated by an attack of acute political change.

Dire incohesion created by the East-West divide was quickly medicated with youthful champions of hedonism – occupying and squatting in abandoned warehouses and deserted office-blocks were used to vent their new-found artistic and musical vitality. Sparks of an innovative, generational motion began to surface.

Clubs, galleries and studios sprung designers, musicians, photographers, artists, writers –  excesses of zeal and artistic gumption spurred a cultural movement that enflamed a previously corrosive, stagnant dogma of a dying, political condition.

Ben de Biel and Tilman Brembs were at the centre of this cultural phenomenon. A world of their own, as it were: an insular mentality that conceived revolutionary, creative notions and social cohesion that acted as the foundation for the bustling, energised capital Berlin is known for today.

After the Fall – Berlin 1990/2000 runs until 18th Oct at The Red Gallery, 3 Rivington St, London, EC2A 3DT