Portals
High beams, brights, are blinding, but they also illuminate the road in the dark hours. Suddenly a hare darts by, a glimpse of a hedgehog or some kind of badger on the bank; sometimes, if lucky, the apparition of an antlered stag in the distance, motionless for an instant under the car’s flash—quickly disappearing off […]
From where you stand
Melting the Body Where I stand, the legs resting against the tree rise into the air. The eyes, now looking from a different perspective, take in the new image. As the natural direction of gravity has been reversed, the lens of everyday life becomes another layer of vision. After a few seconds, the brain learns […]
why do rivers cry?
Rivers such as the Dinkel and the Vechte reflect the traces of human intervention in nature and the climate. Between utilization and excessive use, trade and globalization, they tell the story of a culture that shapes its environment while simultaneously threatening it. The transported Bentheimer Sandstein became a construction material for significant architectural structures and […]
Solid Air
Solid Air is an exhibition by Leto Keunen, Adèle Sweetlove and Iana De Rop, presenting a joint installation, individual works and an edition. Although air might often appear as the most neutral condition of a room, this exhibition approaches it as a system that is shared, but never equally distributed. The spaces in between become […]
wet wings
Paula Breuer wet wings Text by Verena Osthoff When the creature emerges from the larva, awkward and unsteady, its sticky wings are already there, yet still too fragile to fly. It is a state of metamorphosis and departure, but also one of uncertainty and vulnerability. Paula Breuer’s works explore delicate emotional processes of development and […]
all we have – not even ours
Gail Foley: Montgomery Ward “My aunts, the twins, two butches, Carole, Lou, Cherry Street, yellow honey wax, softball summer league, too many drinks on a shag carpet, mirrors, flash and light, birthdays, vacations, Chris and Disney World in Orlando, my copy, your copy, the photo developer at Montgomery Ward, yellow envelopes, yellow honey wax, scratched […]
Underneath All Traces of Comfort
What’s left of the body when it reveals itself only through images, objects, and the structures that shape it? It can hardly be separated from the infrastructures it inhabits, carrying the traces of the systems it has moved through. Throughout the exhibition, stainless steel objects act as shields that both protect and expose a vulnerable […]
Spill
It begins from what existing systems of knowledge were never built to hold — things that resist being recorded, named, or classified, yet exert real force on bodies, spaces, and perception. It asks how visual politics continue to shape what societies recognise and how hierarchies of visibility are absorbed even by those who seek to […]
Fleeting Glance
Queer histories are rarely found in official archives. They persist through narratives, gestures and fleeting encounters, acting as cracks and ruptures within the normative. As ephemeral traces, they preserve memory and knowledge within a culture that often renders queer lives invisible. “Fleeting Glance” is dedicated to the transient gazes and unwritten stories of queer bodies […]
honey never regrets
Why keep going when no one believes in it anymore? But don’t worry. Someone is still taking care of it. In Honey Never Regrets, Marcel Walldorf (b. 1983, Frankfurt am Main) transforms saasfee*pavillon in Frankfurt into an absurd and unsettling landscape where the world is too exhausted to sleep. Through sculptural installations made from historic […]