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Never Memorize Poems in Landscape Leeway

7 Dec 2018 – 12 Jan 2019
The artists of the German-Nigerian project question mutual strategies of collective memory processes in two very different regions and continents. Their artistic interest lies in the connections between devastated landscapes, the erection of monuments (“usable past”) and forms of collective memory in two mining regions. In Lusatia, the gradual phase-out of lignite mining was decided[...]

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dark days in paradise

26 Jan – 3 Mar 2018
With Elisabeth Masé and Dietrich Walther, two artistic positions are represented in the exhibition “dark days in paradise” whose enigmatic and haunting works formulate fundamental questions from the most personal and whose visual languages find forms for the subcutaneous. They address an unease that shakes the often carefully maintained constructions of our ideas of happiness,[...]