TRESOR BERLIN TRESOR

How Techno Became the Soundtrack to Unification

8/17 - June 2012

Red Gallery

1 Rivington Street

London, England

A project exhibition by Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor) &  Ernesto Leal.

For ten days, The Red Gallery in London hosted an exhibition on Berlin's Tresor club, culminating with a party.

Few clubs command as much reverence as Tresor, a notorious rave den that set a standard for Berlin's club scene and gave Detroit techno a foothold in Europe. The exhibition at Red Gallery presented "unseen material and treasures from Tresor's archive" and "memories from the people that attended the club." It coincided with the DVD release of SubBerlin, a documentary chronicling the history of Tresor, which was screened on the opening night, preceded by a Q&A with club founders Johnnie Stieler (Tresor founder & club entrepreneur from East Berlin), Mark Reeder (MFS label owner/music producer), Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor co-founder/Space pioneer).  There was also a reading by Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen - Der Klang Der Familie  ("The Sound of the Family"), an oral history of Berlin's early '90s techno scene. 

The party on Saturday 16th June featured Mike Huckaby, the Detroit DJ and producer and longtime friend of Tresor, plus Marcelus and S_W_Z_K, David Brown's solo incarnation of Swayzak.