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No question: Rio Reiser is one of the great pioneers of German -language rock music and was also a sensitive poet. A show in Berlin in the Browse Gallery Now shows what his creative output looked like. You can see drawings, photographs, notes, diary records, lyrics-a lot from the Rio-Reiser archive.
The exhibition is based on “When the night at the deepest – tone stones in their time” (currently in the Wilhelmshaven coastal museum), which above all represents the political perspective in the thinking of the singer and discloses social contexts of the creation of his music with his band.
The art of Rio Reiser
You can now see pictures in Berlin that show Rio Reiser and Ton Steine Squirings in Kreuzberg in the early 1970s. There are historical videos to see, including a collage that connects paintings by George Grosz from the time of the Weimar Republic with Reiser’s song “My name is human”.
With Grosz, Rio Reiser shares the critical view of social realities and a political attitude as an artist, according to a message about the exhibition. “His ‘Ecce Homo’ shows us what has to do with the beginning of the time ‘human -eater people’ (Rio Reiser).
“Rio Reiser. Ecce Homo – my name is human” – from September 14th to October 12th, 2025 in the Browse Galley Bergmannstr. 5, 10961 Berlin, courtyard right. Exhibition times: Tue-SO, 2:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. Admission: 4 EUR, reduced 2 EUR, up to 18 years free of charge.