flip - Lesung mit Dr. Julia Kahleyß

In the organizer's words:

St. Paul's Church as a church in the urban settlement of Lehe

Based on the history of the church building, which was consecrated in 1905, the Kassel-based artist Anna Holzhauer is interested in the idea of opening up the church as an institution and the implied participatory ideas, founded in the 1968 movement. She is fascinated by the change in perception and view of the church that began here, accompanied by new perspectives and a way of experiencing the church interior. Her very reduced works invite us to pause, to perceive the emptiness and the volume as levels of association and to penetrate them.

Bremen-based photo and video artist Franziska von den Driesch questions the encounter between sacred space and everyday urban life: how do contemporary promises of happiness, fantasies of salvation and economic promises inscribe themselves into a space that traditionally stands for transcendence and the search for meaning? How does the spatial and social localization between religious meaning and contemporary urban reality work? Using reflections, she illustrates the inside and outside, states of transition, materiality and immateriality, with the window serving as an interface.

flip - move something, turn it around, tilt it and thus change the perspective on things and themes: the exhibition invites you to question familiar perspectives, rethink boundaries and thus impressively experience the renovated church space in its complexity with all your senses.