ANNA JÚLÍA FRIÐBJÖRNSDÓTTIR
I will keep close to you is an exploration of explicit and implicit communication. Playing with the International Code of Signals, Anna Júlía Friðbjörnsdottir’s multidimensional pieces render our attempts to connect and communicate with one another while creating a space for the ambiguity, byproducts, and miscommunications that subsequently arise. The International Code of Signals is […]
Nicolas Gebbe
Nicolas Gebbe The Sunset Special 17:30min D 2021 This scintillating film collage deals with the effects of social media and aggressive advertising, which are interwoven with reality-distorting images and exaggerations and, thanks to new technologies, seem ever more individually adapted. In a sweetly sticky swirl of nostalgia, longings and wanderlust, perfectly adapted products are advertised: […]
Markus Draper
In Markus Draper’s exhibition House near a Big Forest, a fly tells the story of the KGB’s links to reform movements in the Soviet Union. The focus of the narrative lies on the building on Angelikastrasse 4 in Dresden that formerly housed the KGB headquarters. The address has become famous as the workplace of the […]
Per Svensson
Per Svensson’s (*1965 in Gothenburg, lives and works in Sweden) self-image as an artist is that of a researcher with special powers. His artistic work is more a free form of research that incorporates various techniques such as sculpture, film, drawing, sound and music and also opens up to spiritual disciplines of knowledge acquisition. In […]
Tia Morgen
As queer sex workers, there is something very unique about our perspectives – on sexuality and gender, intimacy and desire, bodies and needs, freedom and autonomy, inequality and constraint, money and work. Most of the time, our stories are told by outsiders who hold more power, pressing us into narrow moulds that leave no room […]
From the Perspective of the Archive / Saxony-Anhalt
Since 2020, Falk Haberkorn and Sven Johne have been skimming photographic collections from the 1990s in East German regional and city archives with the aim of creating a representative synopsis of all the material based on a systematic review. Their focus lies on the once heavily industrialised regions of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia that were […]
CONSTRUCT YOUR STORIES III
KERSTIN FLAKE An artist working mainly in photography (and, occasionally, video), Kerstin Flake investigates the secret life of anachronistic, failed or transformed places. She explores their history by staging traces, objects and remains so as to create new conceptual and spatial relationships among them. To this effect, she constructs detailed installations or staged situations in […]
Katerina Athanasopoulou
Katerina Athanasopoulou The distance between the staircase and the sky 7:00min UK/GR 2022 In a fusion of synthetic and real pictorial elements, the portrait of a world emerges that unwinds between its banality and a poetic distillation from that contemplation. The act of climbing a staircase in the centre of Athens forms the referential system, […]
MANIFEST Yourself!
‘We will never be quiet again.’ – Suffragettes ‘Use the F-word. Be a feminist.’ – Guerrilla Girls MANIFEST Yourself! is an appeal and an empowering hymn to the (queer) feminist manifesto as an integral part of an ongoing protest culture and a medium of expression frequently used in contemporary art and culture. Recent events, such […]
Borrowed Limbs
Lisa-Marleen Mantel & Laura Juliane Wagner Borrowed Limbs, 2022 2:57min The short film Borrowed Limbs emphasises the mediating role of speculative design in the face of current disruptive advances in AI research. The protagonist is an AI that accesses a human body directly to gain an embodied understanding of its surroundings and complete its journey […]