Simon Menner, <em>Destroyed images</em>, from the series "Pictures from the Secret Archives of the State Security, 2010-2015," C-print.

Simon Menner, Destroyed images, from the series “Pictures from the Secret Archives of the State Security, 2010-2015,” C-print.

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Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.

Today’s show: “From Far Away. Images of the GDR” is on view at the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich, Germany, through Sunday, September 15. The group exhibition brings together photographs and image-based works taken by Tina Bara, Seiichi Furuya, Tamami Iinuma, Sven Johne, and others, during, or about, East Germany, formally called the German Democratic Republic.