That same year, at a celebration in Schwedt, she and the painter Johanna Görke collected signatures for the "Berliner Appell" written by the scientist Robert Havemann and the pastor Rainer Eppelmann.

[3] In 1988 she was part of a group at the 10th Conference of the Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR (Association of Visual Artists in the GDR) that authored a resolution against censorship of the Soviet magazine Sputnik.

"Erika Stürmer-Alex utilizes a variety of techniques to place herself constantly in the friction zones of reality, in order to test her own positions vis-a-vis general existential questions, to link a process-oriented element of existence with individual mythologies and thereby to develop a subjective idiom of signs.

She examines everyday objects with deeper uncomfortable meanings, blends the visionary with aspects of the banal, and puts everything at her disposal at the center of our perception in provocative ways" (Herbert Schirmer)[5] Solo (selection) 1986 Rathausgalerie Fürstenwalde (GDR)[6] 1989 Galerie in der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (GDR)[6] 2013 Spiel ohne Grenzen - Malerei und Plastik 2003 bis 2013, Museum Junge Kunst, Rathaushalle & Festsaal Frankfurt-Oder (Germany); Galerie BWA Zielona Góra (Poland)[6] 2018 Erika Stürmer-Alex: Zeitbrüche und Spielräume, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus[7] Group Exhibitions (selection) 1967 VI.

Artists in the GDR, Museum Barberini, Potsdam[10] 2018 Real Pop 1960-1985, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt-Oder[11] 2018 The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtain, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany);[12] Wende Museum (USA)[13] 1992 Förderpreis des Landes Brandenburg 1993 Study period at the Villa Massimo, Rome 2001 Fellowship from the Stiftung Kulturfonds for the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf 2004 Ostbrandenburgischer Kunstpreis der Märkischen Oderzeitung 2015 Award from the Minister President of Brandenburg for her life's work