For Ever and Forever When I Move

In the organizer's words:

With Enya Burger and Teresa Linhard

In their works, the two graduates of the Düsseldorf Art Academy move in different ways between fact and fiction, mythology and science. Their art allows us to recognize spaces that are an in-between - and both go back centuries in some cases. Enya Burger, for example, uses massive metal constructions reminiscent of a laboratory to investigate both the growth of slime mold and the myth of its origin in the 16th century. In fact, she uses a slime mold as her central artistic medium. This organism, which forms complex networks, illustrates the interplay of natural and digital systems as well as concepts such as intelligence and adaptability. Teresa Linhard creates delicate textile documentations as a result of her intensive, almost archaeological studies of textiles and prints from around the world. She uses them to examine cultural and political messages and work out historical events. But ideas and adaptations that have developed over generations also appear in the embroideries, which have subsequently influenced our image of "foreign" countries.

Curator: Jessica Aydin.