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Public guided tours

This year we are offering two more public guided tours of the DEMARKATION exhibition and the Bilker Bunker with our art mediators.

📍 Saturday, December 20, from 6 to 7 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition and bunker, followed by a glass of sparkling wine in the Schleuse Zwei music bar for €20 per person

📍 Sunday, 21.12., from 3 to 4 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition and bunker for €15 per person

The number of participants is limited to 15.

About the exhibition

DEMARKATION: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Verdun - photographic works in the timeless now by Stephan Kaluza

With DEMARKATION, the Bilker Bunker is showing predominantly large-format photographic works by the artist Stephan Kaluza. At first glance, they appear to be one thing: unagitatedly beautiful. But with further information - the reference to the place where the photography was taken - and the former bunker as the exhibition venue, their ambiguity becomes apparent. What is ultimately illustrated is how society deals with time, memory and forgetting.

The photographs show places of human catastrophe: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Verdun, among others. At first glance, the landscapes appear peaceful and insignificant. But the titles reveal the most difficult history.

This is precisely where the exhibition comes in: It addresses the relationship between image, meaning and memory. How do we look back today when places no longer bear any visible traces? And what future do we want to shape from this?