Opening: Friday, 24.01., 7 pm

last seen recently presents partly provocative, partly poetic artworks which attempt to hold on to something or retell the past in new ways. From photography and film to video games, performances to multifaceted spatial installations, the artists utilize these mediums to question the human memory culture and perceptions of reality. Who gets to narrate the past? How is memory manipulated? When do memories hurt us? And how does one grapple with the emotions which come from these reflections?

Several artists embark on a search for traces of their own childhoods and families. In the process, they expose universal patterns of power and relationships, such as the withholding of love and loneliness in contrast to tender connections in a community. Elsewhere, the inner child dies—a loss profoundly different from the death of a loved one. This too finds its own place in the exhibition. For instance, when a person’s digital remains make it hard to say goodbye. An entire identity in the digital realm—or packed into a suitcase.

The exhibition invites visitors into a space where intimate and public life intersect. Monuments meet fragile minds. The monuments aim to immortalize, yet remain unstable.

All artists in alphabetical order:
Eva Bruno
Jonathan Flohr
Paula Freitag
Mael Glass
Max Grund
Yuxiao Huang
Hana Kawanishi
Josefine Kröll / saint josy
Pyunghwa Lee
Yijiang Liu
Hannah Meiers
Lisa Mukhina
Ruben Sabel
Leon Sahiti
Jamie Yzabel Santos
Benjamin Schlemmer
Caroline Schlingemann

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