Third and last dialogue field!

For the third and final time this year, invited artists will be exploring the theme of favour for six weeks – this time with Denise Lee, Philipp Kolychev and Anne Schädlich as local artists.
The results of this work phase will be visible in a public intervention week from 16 to 23 August – you are cordially invited to attend!

To kick off the residency, we had a special Welcome Weekend, which was organised and accompanied by the (K)Einheit initiative team. (K)Einheit deals with East German remembrance culture from the perspective of Generation Z.

We started on Friday evening in the Wirkbau: the ice was quickly broken over home-rolled summer rolls and initial discussions. We were given an insight into the work of (K)Einheit, which then showed its own documentary series: “(K)Einheit – How Generation Z thinks about the East ” – a filmic dialogue format with ten young people from East Germany. The series was created in 2022.

On Saturday, after a relaxed brunch, we went on a city walk guided by (K)Einheit. One stop was the Kaßberg prison, a place of learning and remembrance, where we took part in a very informative and moving guided tour. Afterwards we visited the art installation “Fischelant ” – a project of 3000 garages in the context of the European Capital of Culture. We ended the evening together with karaoke at Lokomov – a great opportunity to get to know each other even better!

On Sunday, we visited the documentation centre for the NSU complex (open trial). We took part in a guided tour of the centre. The intense impressions had a lasting effect, so we stayed longer at the centre to take in the archive material and the rooms. At the end of the weekend, there was a joint summary.

A big thank you to (K)Einheit for their intelligent and sensitive guidance – and to our resident artists for the open start to these six weeks full of impressions, questions and artistic research.

We look forward to the coming weeks and the intervention week in August!