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In the summer of 1988, Tina Bara and a group of artists visit the Buna plant in Schkopau. "Plaste und Elaste" is the slogan for the plastic products made there. Bara is actually supposed to portray the artists. They have accepted an invitation from the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) to a "plein air" at the plant. The encounter with the workers is intended to shape their artistic work. But Bara succeeds in taking pictures of the ongoing environmental pollution and the conditions under which people work there. In 2025, Bara edited a photographic film from these documents, which can now be seen in the exhibition Robotron. Code and Utopia exhibition.

In this interview with Sabine Weier, co-curator of the exhibition, Tina Bara presents her work.

Tina Bara studied history and art history at the Humboldt University in Berlin and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. In the GDR, she worked as a freelance photographer and was active in the oppositional peace movement, including "Women for Peace". In July 1989, she moved to West Berlin. She has been a professor of artistic photography at the HGB since 1993. Since 2000, Bara has regularly taken part in exhibitions, published books and organised art and teaching projects in Germany and abroad.