Anna & Bernhard Blume, Tatjana Danneberg
For whatever reason (it’s a long story), I recently happened to have the chance to take a look at a scripture altar. I was already aware that the Reformation brought with it waves of iconoclasm, but not that they produced such peculiar placeholders as images made from text. After all, if one feels compelled to […]
UNDER/CURRENTS – Passing through Salt and Water
Water and salt constitute the geological, economic and symbolic resources of Lüneburg. While salt formed the basis of the Hanseatic city’s prosperity, water presented both an economic lifeline and a substantial threat. The group exhibition UNDER/CURRENTS builds on this layered material and metaphorical history. The artists Eda Aslan, Gosia Lehmann and Valerian Blos examine the […]
The Gift / Das Gift
In Old Germanic, the root *geban / *giftiz meant “what was given,” “gift,” or “something given.” However, over the centuries, due to semantic drift and the language’s evolution toward euphemism, the word “Gift” underwent a transformation. The common root retains a positive connotation in English to this day. In German, meanwhile, after years of use […]
La ventana de Peppa Pig
The space at Florit/Florit is not a neutral container. It has never been. Its floors, walls and shifts in rhythm have not been adjusted to accommodate the works. They remain active, with a presence that is not concealed. There is a resistance in the space, a way of being that does not align with conventional […]
It’s a fine line
Turning points and milestones often present themselves as decisive moments, yet they remain, in many ways, constructed illusions; markers imposed onto the continuous flow of experience. A visit, an arrival, a final breath: a person reaches a grandfather, and he dies on the spot. Was he waiting for her, or did the moment itself produce […]
Clair-obscur
Drawing on the works of a hundred works from the Pinault Collection—and, for the first time, several modernist pieces—, the exhibition “Clair-obscur” explores the legacy of chiaroscuro as it resonates in the present day.
Inner Corner Smell City Day
I think it’s Jola Rutowicz’s head and I took the body from a photoblog, Jasia explains and continues: Where does Kea take her things from? Probably from her head. I don’t have a head. We are drinking a Coke Zero and a Dr.Pepper Zero on a bench at Aleja Wyzwolenia. We clink our cans together. […]
The Door is Closed, the Vent Window is Open
We step into the city and move through its streets. At a crosswalk, we are held by a red light. As we wait for it to change, our gaze drifts toward the windows of a nearby apartment building. A scene on the ground floor draws our attention: one person sits, another hangs a painting, a […]
TO AL THE SPROUTS THAT CHANT AT NIGHT
(..)In To all the sprouts that chant at night, the artist dives into a new branch in her exploration of how value is defined and how this in turn manifests itself materially. In the sculptural scenography presented, spouts of glass are seemingly stretching towards the sky. Lindgren has rendered the seedlings in a liminal phase […]
Les Oublis
Time, shaped by memory, unfolds as a narrative in which forgotten experiences constitute the primary plot. To remember is, simultaneously, to forget, as that which is lived survives through time yet escapes consciousness at the very moment of its manifestation. In collaboration with a team of neuroscientists, Les oublis transforms cerebral activity recorded via electroencephalogram […]