Ausstellung: Michel Kekulé. MUTTERLAND

In the organizer's words:

MUTTERLAND is a fragmentary, documentary work in which Michel Kekulé explores the social and personal fractures left behind by German reunification in the East German provinces. Even more than 35 years after the fall of the Wall, the consequences of this upheaval can still be felt. The work approaches a region in which traces of transformation have been inscribed - and at the same time searches for answers in the past. It moves between social reappraisal and an intimate examination of the photographer's own family history.
MUTTERLAND is not a glorification of the past, not a romanticization of a lost state. It is an attempt to capture that which does not disappear in transition, but rather shifts. A search for traces of the fractures in the East, the echoes of which are only now becoming audible. What remains is the image: as evidence, as an assertion of the present.

Curator: Bettina Michel

Vernissage on 01.10.2025 with welcome, introduction and reading by Björn Kuhligk, writer, and live music with Tilman Schaal, trombone
Exhibition duration: 02.10. - 16.11.25