Veronika Witte at Kallmann Museum
Veronika Witte at Kallmann Museum
May 17, 2018 In News No Comment

EXHIBITION: 26.05.2018 – 16.09.2018

OPENING: 25.05.2018 19:00

A made human – Group show with Veronika Witte

LOCATION: Kallmann Museum, Schloßstr. 3b, 85737 Ismaning

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From May through September Veronika Witte takes part in the exhibition Ein gemachter Mensch (engl. A made human) at  Kallmann Museum in Munich-Ismaning. She presents her installation “Liquid identities” with sculptures, videos, drawings and the Archiv ISF.

Who am I, anyway? And why am I the way I am? In the 21st century, the answer to this question seems to have become increasingly complex. Conventional identities dissolve or are reinterpreted, while at the same time there are completely new possibilities for the formation of identities. The question arises as to how far human identity is’made’, i.e. determined by one’s own decisions and actions, and to what extent aspects play a role on which one as an individual has no influence. The international group exhibition in the Kallmann Museum explores these questions from an artistic perspective.

Artists: Selma Alaçam | Aram Bartholl | Martin Brand | James Bridle | Harun Farocki | Sandra Filic | Iwajla Klinke | Alicja Kwade | Sali Muller | Timea Anita Oravecz | Daniela Risch | Nasan Tur | Anna Witt | Veronika Witte | Naneci Yurdagül

Full Program: kallmann-museum.de

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Elmar Hess and Nikolaus Eberstaller at Reinbeckhallen, Sammlung Haupt
Elmar Hess and Nikolaus Eberstaller at Reinbeckhallen, Sammlung Haupt
May 16, 2018 In News No Comment

EXHIBITION: 26.05.2018 – 19.08.2018

OPENING: 25.05.2018 19:00

GELD – WAHN – SINN – Group show with Elmar Hess and Nikolaus Eberstaller

LOCATION: Sammlung Haupt in den Reinbeckhallen, Reinbeckstr. 17, 12459 Berlin

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From May through August, works of Elmar Hess and Nikolaus Eberstaller will be part of the GELD – WAHN – SINN (engl. MONEY – DELUSION – SENSE / MONEY – MADNESS) exhibition of the Collection Haupt, dealing with the topic of money in different ways.

What are we willing to do for money? Has money become the religion of the today’s time? The asset distribution is insane, the mechanisms of international financial markets are marbled with delusions of grandeur. Wild speculations, unscrupulousness, and manipulation are is the order of the day. The absurd excesses of the art market in their complexity and pricing are not easy to understand. The exhibition deals not only with the relationship between finance and art as well as economic, cultural and social issues but also with the question of the importance and the value of spending money in our lives. It questions existing systems and shows utopias and visions of the future.

The collection of the Berlin copyright attorney Dr. Stefan Haupt comprises almost 300 works dealing with the topic of money in various ways and in various media. In addition to photographs, objects, digital art, sound and video works, there are currencies, shares or other designs of exchange platforms created by artists. The exhibition presents a large part of the collection, supplemented by borrowed works.

The individual works examine political events as well as current and historical upheavals – for example, the noisily infinitely circling coin in Esther Shalev-Gerz’ video refers to the introduction of the euro. In Maximilian Roganov’s work, Super Mario goes on the hunt for a Bitcoin coin. Many works criticize the capitalist financial system and point to social grievances. They deal with questions of the art market and the real living conditions of the artists.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a supporting programme of performances, discussions and film screenings, including actions by Nikolaus Eberstaller, Ralf Kopp, Christin Lahr and Philipp Valenta as well as the fictional United Transnational Republics. Following the film screening of “Master of the Universe” (R: Marc Bauder, 2013), Rainer Voss, one of Germany’s former leading investment bankers, will give an insight into the international financial industry. Full Program: reinbeckhallen.de

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Deutsche Version:

Von Mai bis August werden Elmar Hess und Nikolaus Eberstaller in der GELD – WAHN – SINN Ausstellung der Sammlung Haupt, die sich mit dem Thema Geld in verschiedenen Weisen auseinandersetzt, vertreten sein.

Was sind wir bereit, für Geld zu tun? Ist Geld zur Religion der heutigen Zeit geworden? Die Vermögensverteilung ist irrsinnig, die Mechanismen internationaler Finanzmärkte sind durchwachsen von Größenwahn. Wilde Spekulationen, Skrupellosigkeit und Manipulation sind an der Tagesordnung. Auch die absurden Auswüchse des Kunstmarktes sind in ihrer Komplexität und Preisbildung nur schwer zu durchschauen. Die von Lena Fließbach kuratierte Ausstellung beschäftigt sich nicht nur mit dem Verhältnis von Finanzen und Kunst sowie wirtschaftlichen, kulturellen und sozialen Fragen, sondern auch mit der Frage nach der Bedeutung und dem Wert, den Geld für unser Leben hat. Sie hinterfragt bestehende Systeme und zeigt Utopien und Visionen auf.

Die Sammlung des Berliner Urheberrechtsanwalts Dr. Stefan Haupt umfasst knapp 300 Arbeiten, welche sich mit dem Thema Geld auf vielfältige Art und Weise und in verschiedenen Medien auseinandersetzen. Neben Fotografien, Objekten, Digital Art, Sound- und Videoarbeiten finden sich von Künstler_innen geschaffene Währungen, Aktien oder Entwürfe für Tauschplattformen. Die Ausstellung präsentiert einen Großteil der Sammlung, ergänzt durch Leihgaben.

Die einzelnen Arbeiten untersuchen politische Ereignisse sowie aktuelle und historische Umbrüche – so bezieht sich zum Beispiel die geräuschvoll unendlich kreisende Münze in Esther Shalev-Gerz’ Video auf die Euro-Einführung. In Maximilian Roganovs Arbeit begibt sich Super Mario auf die Jagd nach einer Bitcoin Münze. Viele Werke üben Kritik am kapitalistischen Finanzsystem und weisen auf soziale Missstände hin. Sie beschäftigen sich mit Fragen des Kunstmarktes und den realen Lebensbedingungen der Künstler_innen.

Begleitend zur Ausstellung findet ein Rahmenprogramm aus Performances, Diskussionen und Filmvorführungen statt, darunter Aktionen von Nikolaus Eberstaller, Ralf Kopp, Christin Lahr und Philipp Valenta sowie der fiktiven United Transnational Republics. Im Anschluss an die Filmvorführung von „Master of the Universe“ (R: Marc Bauder, 2013) gibt Rainer Voss, einer der ehemals führenden Investmentbanker Deutschlands, Einblick in das internationale Finanzgewerbe. Vollständiges Programm:  reinbeckhallen.de

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PSJM and Thorsten Goldberg at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten
PSJM and Thorsten Goldberg at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten
May 14, 2018 In News No Comment

EXHIBITION: 10.05.2018 – 23.06.2018

OPENING: 09.05.2018 19:00

Watch Your Bubble! – Group show with PSJM and Thorsten Goldberg

LOCATION: Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Turmstraße 75, 10551 Berlin

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[deutsche Version am Ende]

 

In the upcoming May,  works by the artist duo PSJM and multimedia artist Thorsten Goldberg are part of the Watch Your Bubble! art and neuroscience exhibition focusing on borders, multiplicity, and extensions.

The interdisciplinary art exhibition and conference Watch Your Bubble! engages the bubble as a metaphor for knowledge formation, individual and social identity. Across the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy, social psychology, neuroscience, and aesthetics, the project considers the complex origins of social and personal identities as constitutive processes of demarcation and delimitation. Within the framework of an exhibition, conference and related events, the project explores the interface between these varied studies and promotes the productive exchange between the arts and sciences.

Inspired by contemporary social phenomena that reciprocally shape and arise from digitization, migration, globalization, trans-culturalism and other dynamics of hypermodern societies, Watch Your Bubble! conceives identities as biologically, historically, culturally, and socially determined, and as a constantly changing process.

The project includes recent discussions about social bubbles—that is, the isolation and separation of groups according to their preferences, but also across languages, habits, style, personality among others. The bubble metaphor applies to the ever-growing atomization of our societies, where individuals relate less and less with others through enacted “real” interpersonal relations, relying more and more on mediated forms of digital interaction (e.g. social networks).

Watch Your Bubble! offers an interdisciplinary and discursive platform for the open-minded reflection and discussion of individual and social phenomena on the basis of partly interactive installations, objects, paintings, videos, performances, lectures, and discussions with artists, curators, and scientists.

Participating artists: Kim Albrecht, Albert Barbu, Marisa Benjamim, Rachel Bernstein, Valentina Berthelon, Marta Dell’Angelo, Magali Desbazeille, Andrés Galeano, Muriel Gallardo, Thorsten Goldberg, Julia Krahn, PSJM, Casey Reas, Aiko Tezuka, Tomoyuki Ueno

Curated by Nicole Loeser and Muriel Gallardo

Conference speakers: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Prof. Ólafur Elíasson, Dr. Joerg Fingerhut, Prof. Dr. Vittorio Gallese, Simon Guendelman, Prof. Dr. Vincent Hendricks, Dr. Laura Kaltwasser, Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler, Prof. Pietro Montani, Prof. Dr. Jesse Prinz, Prof. Dr. Andreas Roepstorff, Dr. Marjan Sharifi

Kindly supported by the district funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, the Einstein Foundation, Berlin, The Institute for Art and Innovation, Berlin.

Full Program: www.watchyourbubble.de

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Deutsche Version:

Im kommenden Mai sind das Künstlerduo PSJM und der Multimediakünstler Thorsten Goldberg in der Watch Your Bubble! Ausstellung – Über Grenzen, Mannigfaltigkeit und Erweiterungen vertreten.

Die interdisziplinäre Kunstausstellung und Konferenz Watch Your Bubble! befasst sich mit Blasen als Wissensformationen und Metaphoriken für Phänomene der Selbstidentität auf individueller und sozialer Ebene.

Über die disziplinären Grenzen von Philosophie, Sozialpsychologie, Neurowissenschaften und Ästhetik hinweg betrachtet das Projekt die komplexen Entstehungsmechanismen sozialer und persönlicher Identitäten als konstitutive Prozesse der Demarkation und Abgrenzung. Im Rahmen von Ausstellung, Konferenz und einem umfangreichen Begleitprogramm erkundet das Projekt nicht zuletzt die Schnittstellen verschiedener Bereiche und fördert den produktiven Austausch zwischen Künsten und Wissenschaften.

Inspiriert von jenen zeitgenössischen sozialen Phänomenen, die sich aus Digitalisierung, Migration, Globalisierung, Transkulturalität und anderen Dynamiken hypermoderner Gesellschaften ergeben, begreift Watch Your Bubble!Identitäten als biologisch, historisch, kulturell und sozial determiniert, also als veränderliche, kontinuierlich im Werden befindliche Konstrukte.

Darüber hinaus bezieht das Projekt jüngste Diskussionen über so genannte „soziale Blasen“ mit ein, Gruppen, die sich durch bestimmte Vorlieben, Sprachen, Gewohnheiten oder Stile aber auch Abhängigkeiten konstituieren und zugleich von anderen abgrenzen. Damit einhergehend steht eine zunehmende Atomisierung „der Gesellschaft“ zur Debatte, in deren Rahmen Individuen sich weniger durch persönliche zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen, sondern maßgeblich vermittels digitaler Interaktionen wie etwa über soziale Netzwerke miteinander verbinden.

Somit bietet Watch Your Bubble! eine interdisziplinäre und diskursive Plattform zum ergebnisoffenen Reflektieren und Diskutieren individueller und sozialer Phänomene anhand von teils interaktiven Installationen, Objekten, Gemälden, Videos, Performances, Vorträgen und Diskussionsrunden von und mit Künstler*innen, Kurator*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen.

Teilnehmende Künstler*innen: Kim Albrecht, Albert Barbu, Marisa Benjamim, Rachel Bernstein, Valentina Berthelon, Marta Dell’Angelo, Magali Desbazeille, Andrés Galeano, Muriel Gallardo, Thorsten Goldberg, Julia Krahn, PSJM, Casey Reas, Aiko Tezuka, Tomoyuki Ueno

Kuratiert von Nicole Loeser und Muriel Gallardo

Konferenzteilnehmer*innen: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Prof. Ólafur Elíasson, Dr. Joerg Fingerhut, Prof. Dr. Vittorio Gallese, Simon Guendelman, Prof. Dr. Vincent Hendricks, Dr. Laura Kaltwasser, Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kübler, Prof. Pietro Montani, Prof. Dr. Jesse Prinz, Prof. Dr. Andreas Roepstorff, Dr. Marjan Sharifi

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der bezirklichen Förderfonds der Senatsverwaltung Kultur und Europa und der Einstein-Stiftung Berlin.

Vollständiges Programm: www.watchyourbubble.de

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Thorsten Goldberg’s public art project for NETG Edmonton
Thorsten Goldberg’s public art project for NETG Edmonton
May 13, 2018 In News No Comment

Finalisation: 2019

Thorsten Goldberg – Solo public art project

LOCATION: North East Transit Garage (NETG), Edmonton, Canada

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Thorsten Goldberg’s 53º30’N is the selected artwork for Edmonton’s North East Transit Garage (NETG). The work will be mounted on the lanterns crowning the building. 53º30’N is a collection of topographic models of mountain-landscapes from different parts of the world, which are on the same latitude as Edmonton.
In his concept, Goldberg describes a journey to “undiscovered” locations – “by strictly following the path of latitude in a westerly direction, I refer to the popular game of spinning a globe—or these days a digital on-screen earth — and waiting excitedly to see which location the finger or cursor will point to when the globe stops.”

Thorsten Goldberg was chosen as the artist who would deliver one of the City of Edmonton’s largest public art projects, complimenting their new 7-hectare transit facility. The project will consist of 5 massive polygonal topographical depictions of places in the world that are at equal latitudes as Edmonton, all fabricated out of stainless steel. NETG is scheduled to be completed in 2019.

Thorsten’s work is provoking in a way that connects the participant with his intent to serve as the voice of many. He embraces public engagement and constructive discourse while planning his works—and with a thoughtful mind he listens to all sides and then he acts, bringing in the right team to get it done.

For a recent interview with the artist about public art and this project, visit: www.heavyindustries.ca

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Pictoplasma Berlin at WHITECONCEPTS Gallery
Pictoplasma Berlin at WHITECONCEPTS Gallery
April 29, 2018 In News No Comment

EXHIBITION: 02.05.2018 – 06.05.2018

FACE OFF – Group show

LOCATION: WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin

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In May, FACE OFF as part of Pictoplasma Festival takes place at WHITECONCEPTS Gallery with a CHARACTER WALK exhibition.

In a series of 17 exhibitions throughout central Berlin, more than 100 international artists present new original work – sculptures, paintings, art editions and multimedia installations – many of them for the first time in Germany.

The exhibitions include surrealistic paintings from Mexico, internationally recognised character appeal from Finland, illustrations by ‘Trump’s most hated artist’ from the US, quirky animist ceramics from the UK, haunting child portraits from Chile, limited fine-art prints from Lithuania, immersive virtual wonder-worlds from Brasil, and a multitude of fresh, character-driven art, mixing pop culture with anthropomorphic spiritualism.

Full Program: Character Walk exhibitions

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Mike Dargas at Art Fair New York
Mike Dargas at Art Fair New York
April 28, 2018 In News No Comment

ART FAIR: 03.05.2018 – 06.05.2018

VIP Preview: 03.05.2018

Mike Dargas – Group show

LOCATION: Art Miami LLC48, NW 29th Street, Miami, FL 33127

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In the upcoming May, hyperrealistic painter Mike Dargas will be represented at the International Contemporary Modern Art Fair New York with Maddox Gallery (London).

Art New York, presented by Art Miami, returns to Pier 94 from May 3-6 offering noteworthy and fresh works by important artists from the contemporary, modern, post-war and pop eras, featuring paintings, photography, prints, drawings, design and sculpture.

The 2018 edition will see over 85 international contemporary and modern galleries from 30 countries come together to represent over 1,200 artists including CONTEXT, a platform for a selection of new and established contemporary galleries to present emerging, mid-career and cutting-edge talent.

 

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Ruthi Helbitz Cohen at WHITECONCEPTS
Ruthi Helbitz Cohen at WHITECONCEPTS
March 22, 2018 In News No Comment

EXHIBITION: 05.04.2018 – 29.04.2018 | OPENING: 05.04.2018, 18:00

Artist Talk: 29.04.2018, 12:00

”Passive Aggressive – From Daphne to Judith” – Ruthi Helbitz Cohen – solo show

LOCATION: WHITECONCEPTS, Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin

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In the upcoming April, WHITECONCEPTS Gallery is proud to present the solo exhibition of Israeli artist Ruthi Helbitz-Cohen titled: Passive Aggressive – From Daphne to Judith.

Through the use of various materials mostly on paper or canvas surface, the artist turns two-dimensional works into collages and transforms her “paintings” into objects site-specifically installed in the gallery space. Suspended from the ceiling, placed on the floor or hang on the wall, it seems that Ruthi’s paper works are communicating with each other.

The exhibition title derives from the controversial relationship between passive and aggressive emotions. If we describe passive–aggressive personalities psychologically we recognize a disorder that is characterized by a profound pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to suggestions and performance demands that come from other people. Individuals are particularly affected by passive resistance to social and professional requirements and by the often unjustified assumption that they are misunderstood, treated unfairly or overly burdened. One also can speak of a defiant behavior, as it often manifests in puberty.

In Ruthi’s work, the movement from passiveness toward aggressiveness is clearly emphasized as her expression lies in the movement from passive toward aggressive behavior; and through the reference to biblical figurines Ruthi transfers the different narratives into the contemporary.

The latest characters in Ruthie’s work often show witches that influence the transformation of trauma into magic, e.g. helping to transform personalities from the state of a victim into a powerful being. Taboos of various kinds keep appearing in her work, with all their transformative power and suggestions as to human nature. For this exhibition, she uses the narratives of two biblical figures and adds symbols such as the black Lilac flower, as opposite of virginity, in order to emphasize the transformation.

“From Daphne to Judith” underlines the artistic concept and deals with (un-)consciously lived relationship patterns or reactions to trauma. The biblical narrative of Judith portrays a classic murder of a tyrann. When in the medieval tradition Judith acts as a symbol of virtue and as a pious woman, the story was fundamentally changed during the Renaissance: Judith is turned into a vamp and in the early 19th century into a femme fatale. Ruthi plays with all of these associations. As the artist understands passivity in the sense of dying and aggressiveness in the sense of taking power, she also uses the portrayal of the mythological figure Daphne to visualize the other part of the opponent ideas. Daphne is a figure in Greek mythology associated with freshwater. The general narrative is that because of her beauty, Daphne attracted the attention and ardor of the god Apollo. Apollo pursued her and just before being overtaken she was transformed into a laurel tree. Alterig her female power she was worshipped by Apollo even as a tree.

The abolition of the rules that Ruthi Helbitz Cohen practices in her works throws the viewers back on themselves. They are pushed into an intermediate realm of quotations and contrasts in which a multitude of ambivalences stir. This collection of different origins from diverse epochs is held together by a potentially rooted, promising story.

The artist goes even a step further by negotiating the citation of a picture as an act of desire and an expression of the aspiration for possession. This refers to the irrational in the faith and creates in Ruthi’s graphic-painterly work ambivalent pictorial spaces, which enter into the surrounding space through their irritation and at the same time leave a trace of remembrance in the unconscious and unenlightened. The physically communicative presence of her expressive gestures and the enigmatic, irrational in the picture refers directly to the motif, but at the same time submits to a reality outside of it. The freedom to decide which potentials the iconographic representations transmit and which improbabilities can be found is left open to a very bright viewer.

*The plot of the Greek story was later implemented in the bible.

 

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PSJM AT GABINETE LITERARIO
PSJM AT GABINETE LITERARIO
March 21, 2018 In News No Comment

EXHIBITION: 23.03.2018 – 26.04.2018

”LA HOYA HORIZONTAL” – PSJM – solo show

LOCATION: Plaza de Cairasco 1,  Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ,  35002, Spanien

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The PSJM team and the inhabitants of Hoya de la Plata show in the Gabinete Literario the participatory art pieces that have been created so far in the project “La Hoya Horizontal”. It is a participatory and deliberative project promoted by the artistic team PSJM (Cynthia Viera and Pablo San José), who participates for the residents of Hoya La Plata neighborhood of its diagnostic procedures, decision-making and execution of actions.

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PSJM AT ARTPACE SAN ANTONIO
PSJM AT ARTPACE SAN ANTONIO
March 20, 2018 In News No Comment

EXHIBITION: 22.03.2018 – 06.05.2018

”BEYOND THE WALL” – PSJM – Group show

LOCATION: Artpace San Antonio, 445 N Main Street, 78205 Texas/USA

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Artpace & Contemporary Art Month (CAM) are excited to announce their partnership for the 2018 CAM Perennial Exhibition. Every March San Antonio artists, performers, and curators present the best our community has to offer at art institutions around the city. At the core of Contemporary Art Month’s 2018 Perennial Exhibition is San Antonio’s deep-rooted connection with The Canary Islands, whose settlers arrived in San Antonio in the 18th century.

The 2018 CAM Perennial pairs artists in a cross-cultural exchange between San Antonio and the Canary Islands. The artists were chosen by Canary Islands-based guest curator Adonay Bermudez for an exhibition in Artpace’s Hudson Showroom. As part of this exchange, the exhibition will travel to The Canary Islands after its conclusion as the CAM Perennial at Artpace.

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 22, 5-9pm
Exhibition on View: March 22-May 6, 2018

2018 CAM Perennial Artists
San Antonio-based artists
Hayfer Brea (Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1975)
Barbara Miñarro (Monterrey, Mexico, b. 1994)
Ethel Shipton (Laredo, Texas, b. 1963)

Canary Islands-based artists
Luna Bengoechea (Gran Canaria, Spain. b. 1984)
Francis Naranjo (Gran Canaria, Spain. b. 1961)
PSJM, Cynthia Viera & Pablo San José (Las Palmas G.C., Spain b. 1973. & Mieres, Spain, b. 1969)

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Elmar Hess at Stadtgalerie Kiel
Elmar Hess at Stadtgalerie Kiel
March 5, 2018 In News No Comment

Exhibition: 10.03.2018 – 27.05.2018

“Einen Frieden später” Elmar Hess – solo show
LOCATION: Stadtgalerie Kiel, Andreas-Gayk-Straße 31, 24103 Kiel
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Summer 1964: the East German cargo ship Frieden moors in the port of Hamburg. On board, boatman Harald Thomas meets Hannah Ewers, an employee of the local port authority. Both fall in love, make plans, dream of being together. But the German-German reality is their undoing. Only decades later will they meet again.

In a series of installations presented in five separate rooms, Einen Frieden später by Elmar Hess addresses the effects of regulation by state utopias and economic systems through two biographies. Hess portrays the individual story against the background of international political events. Starting from the consequences of Nazi rule and the division of Germany, to joining the Warsaw Pact or NATO, to the current refugee crisis and the impact of globalization and data espionage, the exhibition examines conflicts and wars through limitations on individual freedoms justified by state interests.

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