Of Other Places
In the organizer's words:
Michel Foucault describes heterotopias as "other places", as real and effective places that are drawn into the structure of society: Counter-placements or abutments, actually realized utopias in which the real places within culture can be represented, contested and turned around, as it were. For they deviate from the social order, are spaces of transition, otherness or subversion. Foucault's heterotopias are never utopian in the classical sense, but real, yet "outside of all places".
In Of Other Places, Mike Bourscheid, Giulia Cenci, Alex Da Corte, Stine Deja, Flaka Haliti, Monika Michalko and Tobias Spichtig create their artistic universes in their own exhibition spaces. These spaces are understood as places of "another order" in the sense of Foucault. As real counter-places that open up alternative realities. Each artistic setting stands for a self-contained cosmos with its own rules, atmospheres and contexts beyond familiar parameters. They exist side by side and form a network of parallel realities as a mirror, contrast or overwriting of the world as we know it - condensed, fragmentary, poetic or even disturbing.
The artists draw on both personal and collective experiences, from the past and present as well as from a possible future. However, their heterotopias are not understood as a mere escape from reality, but as spaces of possibility in which alternatives are tested and contradictions can be experienced. For they transport us into unexpected spheres and create an Other within the familiar, in which alternative histories, bodies, times, orders and emotions can be experienced.
Exhibition opening: Saturday, November 15, 2025, 6 pm
As part of the Long Night of Museums
Curator: Hannah Eckstein
Curatorial assistant: Marisa Zeising
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