Atlantis

Reflective water surfaces, roots growing out of walls, doors opening onto empty rooms. The images and objects in the exhibition tell stories of sunken worlds.

The loss of thousands of European settlements is one of the profound traumas and upheavals of the 20th and 21st centuries. The causes of depopulation and the abandonment of entire villages are manifold. They range from social, political and demographic factors to natural disasters.

'Atlantis' is a series of exhibitions that traces the traces of past places in Southeast Europe. At the DZM, it commemorates settlements where German or other minorities once lived – culturally diverse villages and communities that no longer exist today. And with the places, their diversity also disappeared.

The exhibition was realised in collaboration with the Coordination Office for Central and South-Eastern Europe at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin, as well as with scientists, museums and research institutions in Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary.