Yesterday Will Be Better

In recent years, the theme of memory in the sense of ‘mnemonics’‚ has been the subject of many discourses and projects. “Yesterday Will Be Better – Mit der Erinnerung in die Zukunft” tackles interfaces between past and future that have heretofore scarcely been addressed. The starting point for this project is a contradiction: George Brecht’s impossible prediction that “Yesterday Will Be Better”, borrowed as the title for this catalogue, distorts the old platitude that “everything was better in the old days” into the paradox that “yesterday will be better”. This catalogue presents the works of renowned international artists combined with profound short texts and is designed as an open field for a current debate with memory as an interface between the past, the present and the future. Essays by well-known authors also focus on exciting aspects that enable new access to the topic.