Why were two gay men banned from the theatre arcade in 1988? And what queer story does Marienstraße in Osnabrück tell?

Lars Linnhoff is a theatre maker and illustrator. He is queer himself. Since the beginning of 2022 he has been collecting material on queer life in Osnabrück. His illustrated city map on queer city history was published this summer. In cooperation with Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Lars Linnhoff will guide us through the queer Osnabrück cityscape and tell his personal favourite stories.

Meeting point is the Kunsthalle. You don't have to register, just come along. Admission to the Kunsthalle exhibitions is also free for all participants.

As part of the artistic research and art mediation project diamond splinters – osna's queerstory by Irène Mélix.

The performative, digital conference can be attended on December 10 via YouTube HERE.

Curated by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka and Isabel Raabe.
Film programme curated by Nnenna Onuoha.
With: Josephine Apraku, Nikita Dhawan, Timea Junghaus, Brunn Morais a.o.

How does the Europe of the era of Romanticism look at the world? And how does Romanticism still shape Europe's self-image today?

UNEXPECTED LESSONS #3 is a performative symposium. [Symposium is another word for a meeting or conference. Performative means: there is action and speech at the conference]. It takes place digitally. Together we look critically at the Romantic period. We question the ideas of this time. Because it still has an effect in Germany and in Europe today. In art and in politics.

In talks, lectures, artistic actions, film and music, the programme is dedicated to the question: Are colonial and the ideas of Romanticism connected? [Colonialism means that many countries in Europe used to think that their inhabitants were worth more than the inhabitants of other countries. For example in Africa. That's why they have the right to conquer these countries, to oppress and murder the people. They have determined the politics in these countries. And they have stolen many things from these countries. Art, for example. Spices. Raw materials. Or drugs. The European countries found: All this is their right. They can make the people in the colonies work for them as slaves. They have the power over them].

We go back to the roots of today's Europe. What makes up European culture? We look at the time of the Enlightenment and Anti-Enlightenment. [The Enlightenment period lasted from 1720 to 1800, during which time people thought that through thinking and reasoning they could achieve progress in all areas]. [The Anti-Enlightenment wants to restore an old state of affairs. It wants to turn back the developments of the Enlightenment]. We are dealing with the history of the Sinti and Roma, between adaptation and othering. [Othering means: a group of people decides that other people or groups do not belong]. We ask what the relationship is between colonialism and Romanticism. And we talk about romantic love and power.

The event is part of the transdisciplinary TALKING OBJECTS LAB. [Transdisciplinary means: it is research from different angles and fields, not only from the point of view of science]. The TALKING OBJECTS LAB organises events, artistic actions and artist:in residencies. [Residency means: working residencies for artists.]

The events deal with these themes: Decolonisation, Knowledge and Memory, Rethinking Museums and Archives. [Decolonisation means: we acknowledge the mistakes and exploitation of colonisation and do something about it today].

The event is planned and organised by a team of curators from Kenya, Senegal and Germany. Part #1 and #2 of the event took place in Berlin/Nairobi and Reykjavik respectively. Part #3 will now follow in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Osnabrück as part of the annual theme of Romanticism.

The event will be held partly in German and English. Participation is free of charge and without registration.

The exhibition is kindly supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, VR Stiftung and Freund:innen der Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

Timetable

17:00

Welcome by Isabel Raabe (TALKING OBJECTS LAB)

17:05

Welcome by Juliane Schickedanz and Anna Jehle (Directors Kunsthalle Osnabrück)

17:10

Introduction by Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (TALKING OBJECTS LAB)

17:30 Lesson 1

Enlightenment - German Orientalism and Counter.Enlightenment
Input Nikita Dhawan (Political Scientist, TU Dresden)

18:00 Lesson 2

The ultimate romantics - How Roma influenced national characters, the idea of the artist and the avantgarde
Input by Timea Junghaus (Art historian, Director of the European Institute for Arts and Culture/ERIAC)

18:20

Talk with Nikita Dhawan and Timea Junghaus

18:50

Break

19:00 Lesson 3

Love and Romantik
Reading of Kluft und Liebe by and with Josephine Apraku (author)

19:45

The Window of Love
Performance by and with Brunn Morais.

20:00

Film programme, curated and commented by Nnenna Onuoha (visual anthropologist and filmmaker)

With:

Laura Huertas Millán, Journey to a Land Otherwise Known, 2011, 23 min, French, with English and Spanish subtitles

Philip Cartelli & Mariangela Ciccarello, Lampedusa, 2015, 14 min, Italian, French, and English, with English subtitles

20:30

End

Artist Gabriella Hirst invites you to a winter workshop at her installation Battlefield. Together with her and gardener Sonja Nitz, we will winterise the Battlefield garden. We will pack up plants, cut them back and prepare them for winter dormancy. All are welcome to lend a hand and help out and learn more about the needs and protection of individual plants in winter. Over a shared geranium tea, Gabriella Hirst will talk about the history of the garden, the naming of the plants and their historical backgrounds. Come later? Leaving early? No problem, you can join us flexibly between 12:00 and 15:00 and help out. Every helping hand is welcome.

The workshop series has been created as part of artist Gabriella Hirst's exhibition Battlefield and takes place once every season. During the duration of the installation Battlefield in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Gabriella Hirst will conduct several seasonal workshops together with gardeners. [Seasonal means here: The contents of the workshop always fit the season]. She teaches plant care techniques and stories. We will share plant-care techniques and stories as entangled with the upkeep of language and history-making. There is a summer workshop (propagation), an autumn workshop (harvest) and a winter workshop (protection).

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. The workshop will be held in English. Translation into German will be provided. Registration is not necessary. Warm clothing suitable for work and (gardening) gloves are recommended.

The visit of all exhibitions is free of charge for all workshop participants.

Would you like to spend an afternoon with art, cake and various craft activities at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück?
Parents and their children are welcome, Ukrainian families are particularly welcome. A German-Ukrainian translation will be provided.

The number of places is limited. Registrations until 14.11.2022 with Viktoria Puskar puskar@osnabrueck.de
The event is free of charge.

The meeting point is the foyer of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

Talk&Table: сімейний суботній день у Kunsthalle Osnabrück
Субота, 19 листопада, з 15:00 до 17:00

Бажаєте провести день з мистецтвом, тортом та різноманітними ремеслами в Kunsthalle Osnabrück?
Запрошуються батьки та їхні діти, а також українські родини. Буде забезпечено німецько-український переклад.

Кількість місць є обмеженою, тому просимо Вас зареєструватися у Вікторії Пушкарpuskar@osnabrueck.de до 14.11.2022.
Пропозиція є безкоштовною.

Місце зустрічі - фойє Художньої галереї Оснабрюка, Hasemauer 1, 49074 Osnabrück.

Queer Walks are city walks to queer history, queer stories and places in Osnabrück. The word queer is a self-designation. For example, gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, trans people and inter people use it for themselves.
In which bar did the most popular women's parties take place in the 90s? Where do LGBTQIA drink their after-work drink today? [LGBTQIA is the abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and asexual]. What happened at Raiffeisenpark on 14 September 1994? And who was Peter Hamel? What was the role of the Department for Lesbians and Other Women and the university's autonomous gay department for queer history in the city? [A unit is a department at a university.] Where could queers meet, date and invite other queers for a drink? What role did the warehouse play? How long has the CSD actually existed? [The CSD is a street parade where queer people demonstrate for their rights]. And what queer places are there in Osnabrück right now?
Eva Lause from the Kunsthalle's art mediation team takes this tour. Eva Lause is an artist and art mediator. It leads from the Kunsthalle through Osnabrück's city centre. Together we will follow the traces of queer history and stories.

Meeting point: Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Hasemauer 1, 49074 Osnabrück

As part of the artistic research and art mediation project diamond splinters – osna's queerstory by Irène Mélix.

The public Harvest-Workshop takes place together with the artist Gabriella Hirst and the gardener Sonja Nitz. They will harvest the autumn plants, fruits and seeds of the Battlefield garden. Together we will pick, taste and brew the harvest. We will work on the healing and toxic properties of certain plants in the garden. And we will investigate their history. We will dig up bulbs, collect rose hips and do general garden care after summer. All are welcome!

The workshop series has been created as part of artist Gabriella Hirst's exhibition Battlefield and takes place once every season. During the duration of the installation Battlefield in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Gabriella Hirst will conduct several seasonal workshops together with gardeners. [Seasonal means here: The contents of the workshop always fit the season]. She teaches plant care techniques and stories. We will share plant-care techniques and stories as entangled with the upkeep of language and history-making. There will be a summer workshop (propagation), an autumn workshop (harvest) and a winter workshop (protection).

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. The workshop will be held in English. Translation into German will be provided. Registration is required at vermittlung.kunsthalle@osnabrueck.de.

The visit of all exhibitions is free of charge for all workshop participants from 16:00. The exhibitions will be closed during and after the workshop.

On Saturday, 5 November 2022, 17:00, the Kunsthalle Osnabrück opens the second part of its annual theme Romanticism. Two new solo exhibitions will be shown. Both exhibitions were planned and realised especially for the Kunsthalle. They are exhibitions by the artists Cemile Sahin and Andrzej Steinbach.

The Kunsthalle Osnabrück is an old church. The building dates back to the Middle Ages. In this part of the building, the Kunsthalle has been showing exhibitions on its annual theme of Romanticism since June 2022. The exhibitions ask questions: How are people in our society today? How do they feel in such a troubled time? Are the images and ideas of the historical era of Romanticism coming back? And how do these images and ideas fit in with the current sense of disruption in our time?

The two new exhibitions and the educational programme take a more critical look at the themes that were important in Romanticism: Nature, social withdrawal, nationalism [Nationalism means: one feels connected to the state in which one lives]. and individualism. [Individualism means: someone lives very independently and according to their own ideas. The person feels little connection with other people or groups]. Here, the themes of romanticism are not to be considered only from a German point of view, but globally. [Global is another word for worldwide. So it's about points of view from many different countries].

In times of a pandemic and war in Ukraine, the two artists ask in their works: What about the confidence and longing for love, identity and belonging? [Confidence means: I believe in a good future] Are these ideas and concepts back today? And how have they changed since the era of Romanticism? The era of Romanticism had a strong impact on Germany and Europe and triggered a communal feeling of departure, nostalgia and nationalism. [Nostalgia is memories and wistful thoughts of the past.]

The exhibitions by Anna Haifisch, Gabriella Hirst and Irène Mélix will continue to be on view until 5 March 2023. For the opening on 5 November, an edition by the artist Anna Haifisch will be released. The edition is a fan scarf. [An edition is a work of art that exists several times.]

Why were two gay men banned from the theatre arcade in 1988? And what queer story does Marienstraße in Osnabrück tell?

Lars Linnhoff is a theatre maker and illustrator. He is queer himself. Since the beginning of 2022 he has been collecting material on queer life in Osnabrück. His illustrated city map on queer city history was published this summer. In cooperation with Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Lars Linnhoff will guide us through the queer Osnabrück cityscape and tell his personal favourite stories.

Meeting point is the Kunsthalle. You don't have to register, just come along. Admission to the Kunsthalle exhibitions is also free for all participants.

As part of the artistic research and art mediation project diamond splinters – osna's queerstory by Irène Mélix.

Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings use different media in their art: film, painting, drawing and performance. [Another word for performance is action art.] Their work questions the way we live together, structures in politics and the recent development of conservatism. [Conservatism means: Someone rejects change. They want everything to stay as it is. They want everything to be in order. In politics, they have socially traditional ideas.] The art of Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings is also about discrimination.
For their solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the artists have developed a new installation, [An installation is a work of art in space.] The installation is called Inside. The installation combines sound works with 15 dollhouses, which were found. The dollhouses show different architectural styles of houses. The houses are from Great Britain. They were built in different years. The oldest one is from the late 19th century but there are also houses from the present. [The present is another word for the time we live in now.] With Inside, the two artists ask: How do we see ourselves? How is this connected to the house we live in? How are the two related? The bourgeois house represents very clear roles for men and women. It also represents political power and civic duty. [Civic duty means: I am a citizen. This is why I have certain duties. For example: I have to pay taxes. I have to take my kids to school.] For many women, a house is a place of oppression and labour. But there are different examples in history, too. Upper-class women could use their social standing, wealth and property to have political and social power.
The sound works of the installation have been composed by Owen Pratt. He used tones and sounds he found. But also material he composed himself. In each dollhouse there are loud speakers. They produce a chaos of different sounds. Sometimes, these sounds act in harmony, sometimes alone and sometimes they are all mixed up. The tones and sounds also show: The house is a starting point for all kinds of social relations.

The writer Huw Lemmey has written a text about the exhibition, which you can download here:
text_huw_lemmey_inside_en.pdf

Through our video documentation, you will get an insight into the exhibition Inside.

The artist duo Hannah Quinlan (UK) and Rosie Hastings (UK) live and work in London. Their work is exhibited internationally, including solo presentations at Arcadia Missa, London (2021), MOSTYN, Llandudno (2020), Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on Sea (2020) and Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2020). In addition, their work has been shown in group exhibitions including the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev (2021), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020) and Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia (2019). In 2020, they received the Jarman Award for Emerging Film Artists. The exhibition at Kunsthalle Osnabrück will be the artists’ first institutional solo exhibition in Germany.

The exhibition is kindly supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, VR Stiftung and Freund:innen der Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

The Forum demokratische Kultur und zeitgenössische Kunst (Forum DCCA) looks at the political dangers facing the arts. It encourages discussions of issues that are important for an open society. The focus is on addressing racism and antisemitism. These problems keep coming back. [Racism means: Someone believes: Humans belong to different races. Some races are better than others. Racist people always believe: Their own race is the best.] [Antisemitism means: to have prejudices, hatred and hostility against Jewish people.] From this perspective, the forum looks at waves of Romanticism. It also looks at Völkisch ideas that were common back then. Völkisch is a German word. It means: belonging to the people of a nation. It is also a racist word. It means: One nation is better than other nations. During the era of Romanticism, people often used this word in Germany. It was part of their everyday language.
Two new video works will be shown in the ruin. They look at the topics of Romanticism, antisemitism and the rejection of modernity. [Modernity is the term used to describe social changes from the 18th century onwards. Modernity stands for democracy and freedom for all people.] What connects these topics? How they do affect us? How were things in the past? And how are things today?
The video works contrast two narratives. The first film was shot in 3 different locations. They stand for the mystification of the so-called “cultural nation” of Germany. [Mystification means: Something is retold more beautifully than it was in the past.] In German Romanticism, some places were especially important: Valhalla in the Danube Valley, the Ruin Theatre in Bayreuth and Peacock Island in Berlin. These places are shown in the video. They are shown together with repeated images of Romanticism from the computer game Elden Ring. The forum has also written song lyrics. The artist Verena Dengler performs these lyrics at the Ruin Theatre in Bayreuth. The song is about an antisemitic theatre play that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wrote himself. The second film shows footage from the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site. The period of Romanticism was very important to the Nazis. Many ideas of Romanticism became part of their ideology. [Ideology means: What values do people have? How do they see the world?]

On October 15, 2022, there will be a theme day titled Frieden in Anführungszeichen [Peace in Quotation Marks ].
The event is kindly supported by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.

The Forum Democratic Culture and Contemporary Art (DE) is led by the artists Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane. It was founded in 2018 as a project of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. Most recently, Forum DCCA initiated the series "Continuities of Anti-Semitism" at Volksbühne Berlin (2020/21), collaborated with Hito Steyerl for her exhibition at Kunstsammlung NRW, K21, and developed a work on anti-modern continuities for Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen (both 2020). The exhibition at Kunsthalle Osnabrück will be Forum DCCA's first institutional solo exhibition.

The exhibition is kindly supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, VR Stiftung and Freund:innen der Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

The Kunsthalle Osnabrück hosted the theme day Peace in Quotation Marks organised by Forum for Democratic Culture and Contemporary Art. It wants to examine the call for peace more closely. What does it mean? In politics. In culture. And in history. And where is the call for peace instrumentalised? [Instrumentalised here means: The call for peace is used for other purposes to achieve something].

In his book LTI - Language of the Third Reich Victor Klemperer wrote: "The National Socialists did not invent new words for their language. Rather, they twisted the meaning of words. They spoke of peace. But actually they wanted to justify their war with it. [Justify means here: They want to declare war. Even if the actual reasons for the war are different].
Right now we are experiencing something similar again. Russia is waging a war of aggression on Ukraine. And Vladimir Putin is justifying the war with denazification. That, too, is an instrumentalisation. Comparable examples can also be found in other historical and social contexts.

But: When are such lies believed by a particularly large number of people? In which societies does this happen particularly easily? And what can we learn from this? For our coexistence. For current politics. And for dealing with our own history.

Together with the invited experts, we looked at various examples of instrumentalisation. In different places and at different times. When is the call for peace only a pretext? When is it used to justify war, violence and discrimination? [Discrimination is another word for exclusion and disadvantage.] And for what reasons does this happen?

With Ferda Berse (social scientist and union representative in Hannover), Dr. Iryna Solonenko (Ukraine Programme Director for the Centre for Liberal Modernity (LibMOd)), Anna Staroselski (Vice President of the German-Israeli Society (DIG) in Berlin), Vasyl Cherepanyn (director of the Visual Culture Research Center (VCRC) in Kiev), Dr. Simon Teune (sociologist at the Institute for Protest and Movement Research and in the field of Intervening Arts at the Free University of Berlin).

The timetable for Peace in Quotation Marks can be found here: timetable.pdf

The event is funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

Documentation

You can find video documentation of the individual contributions here.

A language that is ever green is a collection of poems. It dates back to the time of Romanticism. The poet John Clare wrote them. He lived from 1793 to 1864 and wrote mainly poems about nature.

These poems and music can now be experienced in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Romanticism is the current annual theme of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. The musical reading also poses the question: which themes and social issues from the period of Romanticism are back today? John Clare criticised the way land was treated at the time. He thought it was being snatched from the common people to build factories on. He fought against this in his texts. So you could say he was an early campaigner for environmental protection.

The actress Monika Vivell will perform selected texts by John Clare: poems, ballads, folk songs and autobiographical texts. [Autobiographical texts are texts John Clare wrote about his life]. She will be accompanied by violinist Dorothea Sack. Jens Peters is the director of the Literaturbüro Westniedersachsen. And he is a member of the John Clare Society. He will present John Clare's curriculum vitae. He will also relate the texts of the reading to the current exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

Admission to the reading is free, a donation is requested. Reservations can be made through the Literaturbüro Westniedersachsen Tel. 0541/202-7908 or by email at LitOs-info@osnabrueck.de.

Coming out means: I tell the people around me that I am queer. [The word queer is a self-designation. For example, gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, trans people and inter people use it for themselves].
Kunsthalle Osnabrück is having a coming out day. We meet at the Kunsthalle. We take hot Polaroid photos in wild clothes from the costume rental "Rüschen Plüsch" from the Haus of Udo. We make cool accessories. We spend a creative afternoon together with friends. The Haus of Udo, the Friends of Dorothy, the Starkids and YOU, if you are queer and/or a "friend of queers". [Friend of queers means: I am friends with queer people.]

As part of the artistic research and art mediation project diamond splinters – osna's queerstory by Irène Mélix.

Peter Hamel was murdered on 14 September 1994 when he stood protectively in front of two people at Raiffeisenplatz during a homophobic and queer-hostile attack. Since his murder, he has always been remembered on 14 September. And it's a day for standing up against the hatred against queer people and for civil courage. [The word queer is a self-designation. For example, gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, trans people and inter people use it for themselves] [Civil courage means: I am courageous. I stand up for other people and defend their rights].

At 11:00 the Gedenkinitiative Peter Hamel invites you to the inauguration of the memorial against homophobia and for civil courage and to the commemoration of Peter Hamel at Raiffeisenplatz, 49074 Osnabrück.

As part of the artistic project diamond splinters - osna's queerstory we would like to come together with you, with the artist Irène Mélix and the Osnabrück abseits choir at 18:00 at Raiffeisenplatz in memory of Peter Hamel. If you have a picnic blanket, you are welcome to bring it.

The Confusion Open Gay Pub is a bar in Osnabrück. It is one of the most established places of queer urban history in Osnabrück. [The word queer is a self-designation. For example gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, trans people and inter people use it for themselves].

In the past, gay men met at Confusion. Today, the bar is a popular meeting place for an extended colourful audience. This means that not only gay men come to the bar anymore, but also other queer people. And people who feel connected to them.

Various Osnabrück people gather over coffee and cake. They tell stories from their queer lives.
Stories of their transition.
[Transition is another word for transition. It means: a trans person changes their life. So that the person can live openly with the gender that the person has].
Stories of coming out.
[Coming out means: I tell other people that I am queer].
Stories of dating.
[Dating is the English word for a romantic date.]
And stories of political involvement.

Do you feel like hearing their stories? Want to learn more about a particular topic? Do you want to ask questions - or would you like to tell your own personal story?

Then come along to the Soft Date on 11 September 2022 at 16:30 at Bar Confusion, Pottgraben 27, in 49074 Osnabrück.

Do you like to be out at night? Then you can stay longer, because the bar opens regularly at 19:30. You can talk to the bar owner over a beer or cocktail. This way you can learn more about the queer scene in Osnabrück. Burkhard Wischer also has a lot to tell.

As part of the artistic research and art mediation project diamond splinters – osna's queerstory by Irène Mélix.

Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke (born 1888), is still overshadowed by her first husband, August Macke. This narrated biography attempts to put her in her own right, to acknowledge her talents and merits. In the few years of life together with Macke, she was his partner on an equal footing, encouraged him in his artistic work and was artistically active herself. In 1914 Macke was killed shortly after the outbreak of war. Her second husband. Lothar Erdmann was murdered by the Nazis in 1939. Despite all the blows of fate, the young widow does not give up, raises five children and looks after Macke's work. Without her prudence and energy, a large part of the paintings would be lost.

The author Margret Greiner creates a lively portrait of this extraordinary woman on the basis of sources evaluated for the first time and embedded in the historical context.

The reading is organised by the Buchhandlung zur Heide, the Altstädter Bücherstuben and the Buchhandlung Eicholt. Admission is 12€ per person. Tickets are available at the bookshops.

Queer voices from the international and Osnabrück past will speak out via personal ads from the archives and journals. [The word queer is a self-designation. For example, gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, trans people and inter people use it for themselves]. The search for love, sex, encounters of all kinds and sometimes longings for completely different things want to be answered! Do you feel like getting in touch with queer historical personal ads? We answer the ads together, in personal or fictional. [Fictional means here: with a made-up story.] Or do you enjoy writing your own ads and letters more? Of course there is the possibility to keep the writing anonymous. In February 2023, your text will appear in a special supplement of the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. The writing workshop is open from 12 noon to 5 pm. So you can drop in briefly, but also stay longer to write your texts. Come on by!

Participation in the writing workshop is free of charge. Registration is not required. Admission to the exhibitions is also free if you attend the event.

Until the end of the year, there will also be a mobile letterbox where you can answer personal ads.

The writing workshop takes place within the framework of the artistic research and mediation project diamond splinters - osna's queerstory by Irène Mélix.

The summer-workshop Battlefield takes place in the garden of Gabriella Hirst's installation. It is designed to support plant growth. The focus is on the propagation of plants. We will learn techniques: grafting roses, gentle pruning, encouraging flowering, weeding and other methods of maintaining and controlling the garden. Gabriella Hirst will give a tour and talk about the history of certain plants in the garden. Participants will also be invited to share their own garden stories. In this way, the Battlefield archive will be expanded.

Over the duration of the installation Battlefield at the Kunsthalle Osnabruck, we will be running several seasonal workshops together with Gabriella Hirst and the gardeners. [Seasonal means here: The contents of the workshop always match the season]. We will share plant-care techniques and stories as entangled with the upkeep of language and history-making. There will be a summer workshop (propagation), an autumn workshop (harvest) and a winter workshop (protection).

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. The workshop will be held in English. Translation into German will be provided. Registration is required by August 17 at vermittlung.kunsthalle@osnabrueck.de. Workshop participants can take plant cuttings with them. Please bring a small flower pot for this purpose.

The visit of all exhibitions is free of charge for all workshop participants from 16:00. The exhibitions are closed during and after the workshop.

Queer Walks are city walks to queer history, queer stories and places in Osnabrück. The word queer is a self-description. For example, gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, trans people and inter people use it for themselves.
In which bar did the most popular women's parties take place in the 90s? Where do LSBITQ drink their after-work drink today? [LSBITQ is the abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, inter trans and queer]. What happened at Raiffeisenpark on 14 September 1994? And who was Peter Hamel? What was the role of the Department for Lesbians and Other Women and the university's autonomous gay department for queer history in the city? [A unit is a department at a university.] Where could queers meet, date and invite other queers for a drink? What role did the Lagerhalle play? How long has the CSD actually existed? [The CSD is a street parade where queer people demonstrate for their rights]. And what queer places are there in Osnabrück right now?
Diana Häs and the artist Irène Mélix are doing this tour. It leads from the Kunsthalle right through Osnabrück's city centre. Together we will follow the traces of queer history and stories.
Dr. Diana Häs is a philosopher, educationalist and member of the Osnabrück City Council. Since 2001 she has been campaigning for the rights of queer people, for example in the women's cultural association Mother Jones and Gay in May. She knows a lot about the city's recent queer history!
Irène Mélix is an artist and activist. She had the idea for the Queer Walks.

Further dates with the mediation team of the Kunsthalle on 22.10.2022, 12.11.2022, 21.01.2023 and 11.02.2023, each at 11:00 a.m.

Meeting point: Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Hasemauer 1, 49074 Osnabrück

As part of the artistic research and art mediation project diamond splinters – osna's queerstory by Irène Mélix.

As part of the cooperation with the Theaterwerkstatt Bethel, the Volxtheater presents the play Samsa's Metamorphoses after Franz Kafka and Haruki Murakami:

A beetle wakes up in the morning and has become a man.

Transformations that raise questions: How can I live self-determined? Who do I belong to? And who am I?
And then the man meets a woman. With her, he wants to discover the answers to his questions together.

In Katrin Nowak's performance, Angela Calow (woman) and Bernold Rix (man) play out their transformations in space, time and body.

"Perhaps people stay sane by doing the little things unflinchingly and conscientiously, even when the world is falling into ruins." [Quote from Haruki Murakami.] [Undeterred means: one does not allow oneself to be influenced. One simply carries on.]

The event takes place as part of the Theatre Days Reality Check of the Osnabrück Theatre.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Regional Cultural Policy NRW, the Fonds Soziokultur and the Stiftung der Sparkasse Bielefeld.

Katrin Mayer does a lot of research in her art. Her artworks always have to do with places. It is about the history and the stories of a place, about the architecture and the special contexts. Katrin Mayer questions: What happened in this place in the past, and what of it still has an effect today? At what points does the history of the place need to be rewritten?

The theme of Katrin Mayer's exhibition is the transformation from the cloister as part of the monastery to the exhibition corridor of the Kunsthalle. From a religious place to the corridors of art with exposed electricity and internet cables connecting the Kunsthalle inside. This shows: The Kunsthalle is a place with history. A place for people. And a place that needs to be taken care of. Katrin Mayer exposes the different levels. Her multimedia installation consists of a newly created room installation, a video work and the website www.flurfunkerinnen.org. The stories of the Kunsthalle's employees stand on an equal footing with images of women in church history. The images remind us, among other things, that the first Dominican monastery was a convent for women. This part of history is often forgotten today. Yet it has helped shape our present.

Katrin Mayer lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin. She is currently a fellow of the Berlin funding program Künstlerische Forschung/gkfd, in the context of which she is working on a feminist history of coding. She has developed works for the following institutions, among others: Kunstsammlung NRW Düsseldorf, Lenbachhaus Munich (both 2020), Biennale Warsaw (2019), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2017), Kunstverein Hamburg (2017), Kunsthalle Lingen (2016), Ludlow38 MINI/Goethe-Institut New York (2014), Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2014), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2013), Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach (2013) and KUB Arena Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011). Katrin Mayer has taught at various universities, including ZHdK Zurich, HfbK Hamburg and the University of Cologne.

The exhibition is supported by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stiftung der Sparkasse Osnabrück, Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung/gkfd and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

For the film room We Cannot Skip This Part, curator Inga Zimprich has put together a film programme. There are different seating areas in the room. The films will be shown there. They are translated into different languages: German, English, simple language, sign language, audio description and Braille. [Audio description is needed by blind people. It is described for them: What are you seeing in the film right now? Braille is a script for blind people. You can feel it with your fingers and read it that way].

Often, when we think of accessibility, we first think of a ramp or a lift. But what about our imaginations and thoughts? They too shape the spaces in which we move. How should we be in order to be recognised? How do we belong to society? What is actually "normal"? And what does "health" mean? Inga Zimprich has put together a programme of 3 films on the annual theme of accessibility.

Click here for the full description of the film programme: filmprogramm_politische-gefuhle.pdf

Inga Zimprich is a cultural worker, mother and works as a care assistant in Berlin. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, and the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht, as well as at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. Together with Julia Bonn, she initiated the Feminist Health Research Group in Berlin, which explores alternative models and methods of care and conceives exhibitions, zines, and workshops. She is also part of the Sickness Affinity Group.

The artist Candice Lin lives in Los Angeles. In her work she shows: Colonial history* continues to have an effect in many areas to this day. For example, in these areas: goods that are sold all over the world, knowledge, language, beliefs, precious metals, spices, drugs.
Candice Lin has developed a new room-sized installation for the church of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Text, sculpture, drawing, ceramics and video will be brought together in equal measure. It tells of the effects of Christian missionary work up to the present day. [Missionary work means: Christians travelled to distant countries. They wanted the people in these countries to change their faith and become Christians too].
Candice Lin tells about George Psalmanazar. He was European and lived at the beginning of the 18th century. He pretended to be a native of Formosa. Formosa is now the country of Taiwan. George Psalmanazar wrote books about life in Formosa, about religion and about the everyday life of the people there. But he had made it all up.
Candice Lin's installation is also about Yoga and QiGong. Today, both are trend sports that white people in Europe and the USA have adopted.
Candice Lin also reports on the outbreak of the plague in the city of Kaffa. [The plague is a very contagious and deadly disease.] The city is now in Crimea. The Mongols besieged the city in 1347. Some of the Mongol fighters fell ill with the plague. They shot the dead over the city walls of Kaffa. So that the people in the besieged city also died of the plague. This is commemorated by a 5-metre-high wooden catapult that hurls glitter bombs into the church hall. The catapult sets off a video in which a cat-being invites the visitors to a joint QiGong session. Materials such as gold, silver, copper and opium transform the Kunsthalle into an enchanted place. [This enchanted place promises healing, wealth and power. The inequality of power in history is playfully revealed.

*Colonial history means: Many countries in Europe used to think: Their inhabitants are worth more than the inhabitants in other countries. In Africa, for example. That is why they have the right to conquer these countries, to oppress and murder the people. They have determined the politics in these countries. And they have stolen many things from these countries. Art, for example. Spices. Raw materials. [Raw materials can be used to make other things. For example, oil or wood]. Or drugs.
The European countries found: All this is their right. They can make the people in the colonies work for them as slaves. They have the power over them. Until today, you can feel it in many places: You can still feel this history of oppression today. Power on earth is still distributed differently. To this day, bodies with light skin and bodies with dark skin are viewed and treated differently.

Candice Lin lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2018, she was appointed to the art faculty at the University of California Los Angeles. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Ludlow, New York (2019), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago (both 2018), Bétonsalon, Paris (2017), and Gasworks, London (2016). Lin has recently been involved in prominent group exhibitions, including the Made in LA Biennale (2018), Taipei Biennale (2018), and the upcoming Gwangju Biennale in Seoul and Prospect 5 Biennale (both 2021).

The exhibition is supported by the Niedersächsische Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kultur and the Stiftung Niedersachsen.

In the new building of the Kunsthalle there is a concrete ceiling. Its only been uncovered recently. This concrete ceiling has been an inspiration for the artists of die Blaue Distanz. They observe the exhibition space. Does it remind one of an underground car park? Is it a stage? How can this space be used? How do we encounter each other in this space? It will be used as a meeting place during the entire exhibition period. Films will be shown there. In the space, you see signs you have seen in road traffic: guidelines, markers, or barriers. The two artists are using these signs. That way they show: there are barriers to exhibition making. For a long time, these barriers have been ignored. What is changing now? What challenges are there to it? And how does it change the relations of power?
In the space, there are various seating areas. There will be films shown there. Yolanda Zola Zoli van der Heide and Inga Zimprich selected these films. The films will be translated into different languages: German, English, Simple Language, Sign Language, Audio description, as well as Braille. [Blind people need audio description. It is described for them: What do you see in the film? Braille is a type face for blind people. You can feel it with your fingers and thereby read it.]

die Blaue Distanz in dialogue with Vorstand des Behindertenforums Osnabrück
Contributors: Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide with films by Tyna Adebowale, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Cecilia Vicuña. Inga Zimprich with films by Edna Bonhomme/Nnenna Onuoha, Karin Michalski, R.A Walden

Film programme by curator Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide:
June 26-October 3, 2021

Film programme by curator Inga Zimprich:
November 6, 2021–February 27, 2022

Part of Die Blaue Distanz (DE) are Anna Erdmann and Franziska Goralski, who have been working together as a duo since 2016. In their artistic work they are interested in queer ways of living and learning. Both studied the post-graduate master's program "The Commoners' Society" at the Sandberg-Instituut in Amsterdam from 2018-2020. Their work has been shown most recently at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2020), Festspielhaus Hellerau (2019), and Cities of Days, Los Angeles (2018), among others.

The exhibition is supported by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and the Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Until October 2021, the church of the Kunsthalle is being renovated. So, at the moment, there is a construction site barrier. We make use of that. The Kunsthalle has invited Natasha A. Kelly and Hannah Marc, to develop an artistic contribution for the scaffold. They have designed a big poster for the scaffold. On the poster, you can read a quote from Natasha A. Kellys new book. The book is called: Strukturelle Probleme brauchen strukturelle Lösungen! [Structural problems need structural solutions]. Structural means: it is not an individual problem. The problem exists in many places and in many institutions.

The poster says: "Es gibt kein neutrales Außen von Rassismus - jede Person und Institution ist davon berührt."

Natasha A. Kelly is a PhD communication sociologist, curator and artist. In 2019, she made her directorial debut with the international performance of her doctoral thesis, Afrokultur. Der Raum zwischen gestern und morgen. In addition, she has long taught and researched on post/colonialism and feminism and is involved in the Black German community.

The design of the banner is by Hannah Marc. She was born in Uganda, grew up in southern Germany and lives in Berlin. She felt that illustration is her vocation especially during her fashion studies. Being "different" and "standing out" as a Black woman and artist is her daily reality of life. Visual art allows her to question and redefine learned realities and the limitations that come with them. 2020 Being part of the Dear Discrimination book project also means for her to artistically accompany, process and document the Racial Awakening in Germany.

Kindly supported by Freunde der Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

Digital exhibition tour via Telegram: With TeleMood, you can participate in the exhibition programme. It works via the app Telegram. Maybe you can’t come to the Kunsthalle in person? There are many reasons for that. With TeleMood, you
can still be at the exhibitions.

With TeleMood you get new perspectives on the exhibition contents. Helene Baldursson and Clara Wolff go through the exhibitions. They moderate from surprising viewpoints. Via TeleMood, you can accompany them. Do you want to discuss the exhibition, exchange ideas and share your own perspective on the exhibition? There is a chat feature on TeleMood for that.

Prejudices are dangerous. They mean: someone is biased. You can also say: Someone already has an opinion on something. No matter if it is right or wrong. Prejudices produce hostility. There are many barriers. And because of the hostility, they remain. In our society there are many boxes. Boxes to categorize people into. That means: You see a person for the first time. You don’t know that person. And still you think: I know what that person is like. This kind of thinking excludes people. It hurts people and devalues them. Exclusion happens in many places, in many groups and institutions. We all have prejudices. We learned them. But where, and how, and from whom? Can we unlearn them? And if yes, how?

To discuss these questions, a research group is meeting at the Kunsthalle. The research group studies barriers. Barriers in language. Barriers for the body. Barriers due to gender, race, and class. Together, we want to identify the barriers. We want to unlearn prejudices. We want to acquire a new, accessible way of thinking.

On September 25 and on December 4, the group will be open to the public. That means: everyone can take part. You are invited to think and research along with us. Together we want to develop texts, images, and other materials.

Research team of the Kunsthalle: Janaina Celina Domingos, Sarah Maria Kather, Stephanie Klusekemper and Julia Sassen.

The Volxtheater of the Bethel Theatre Workshop has developed a new play. The play is called The Transformers. It was created in the exhibition spaces of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. In dialogue with the works of art.
For the development of the new production, the themes of the artists served as a source of ideas. But also their own understanding of accessibility.
The group of about 15 played with the concept of accessibility and conquered the premises of the Kunsthalle. The result is a performative, collage-like piece, i.e. a piece made up of many individual images. It is about the power of change, community and trial and error.

Three different performances will be shown. These will take place simultaneously at different locations in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Each performance lasts 15 minutes and is repeated a total of 4 times at 30-minute intervals.

The event takes place within the framework of the Theatertage Reality Check of the Theatre Osnabrück.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, Regional Cultural Policy NRW, the Fonds Soziokultur and the Stiftung der Sparkasse Bielefeld.

The event weekend offers all the opportunity to exchange ideas about low-threshold mediation services. [Low-threshold means: It is easy to accept the offer. You can simply join in]. What possibilities do art educators, curators and institutions have in their work to use new, low-threshold formats?

Together we would like to discuss the possibilities of art education in the symposium tool kit. [A symposium is an event. It is an opportunity to exchange ideas on a topic].

We will exchange ideas in discussion rounds, workshops, break-out sessions and other participatory formats. [Participatory means: you can help shape the event.] The outcome of the exchange is still open. We are asking ourselves the questions: What can art mediation do to connect people and art? And how can the mediation of contemporary art become more inclusive? We will discuss these and many other questions with each other during the symposium. We think: Low-barrier mediation work is necessary in the future.

At the invitation of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the symposium is being organised by Vincent Schier, Artistic Director of the Kunstverein Göttingen, and Laura Hartmann, who works as a museum guide at the cooperation partner Museumsquartier Osnabrück. [A museum guide discovers new ways of mediation. So that the museum is interesting for all people].

Publication

A publication has appeared on the occasion of the symposium tool kit. The publication is a tool. You can read it, file it, share it, copy it or cut it up. The publication is only available as a digital version in PDF. So it remains free of charge. You can print the publication yourself. Or send it to others. The publication is available in simple language in German or English:
tool-kit_en_accessible.pdf

Contributors

Participants will be artists, cultural mediators, scientists, activists, authors and educational trainers.

The contributors are Nora Brünger, Vivian Chan & Rowan de Freitas (Kollektiv Kunst im Zwischenraum), Nattan Dobkin, Melanie Erzuah, Moshtari Hilal, Diane Hillebrand and Katharina Klappheck.

Programme

You can find the programme here: kho_tool-kit.pdf

Supported by the VGH Stiftung, the Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur des Landes Niedersachsen, the Stiftung Niedersachsen and the Stiftung der Sparkasse Osnabrück.

As part of the exhibition Flurfunker:innen by Katrin Mayer, there will be a reading with Sophia Eisenhut (author and artist, Vienna) from her recently published book EXERCITIA S. Catarinae de Manresa, Anorexie und Gottesstaatlichkeit (Merve Verlag 2021), followed by a talk with Márcia Elisa Moser (gender and religious studies scientist and consultant for critical diversity and anti-discrimination work, Frankfurt am Main).

When Katrin Mayer began researching for her exhibition Flurfunker:innen in the former cloister of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the first book she picked up was by Caroline Walker Bynum, which Márcia Elisa Moser had once given her for her birthday: Fragmentation and Redemption: Gender and Body in Medieval Beliefs. In it she read, for example, how Saint Catherina of Siena appeared in a vision as a bearded woman and was thus mistaken for Christ. In addition, Katrin Mayer was in an exchange with Sophia Eisenhut during this time as part of her project for the Berlin funding programme Artistic Research. In her book, Sophia Eisenhut created a fictitious, polyphonic clergywoman, Catarinae of Manresa, whose physicality was also in change. Towards the end of the exhibition's run, we will travel together back to the beginning of the research and continue writing possible feminist narratives of an Kunsthalle that was once a convent.

You can watch the reading here as a stream on the YouTube channel of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück.

Kindly supported by Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stiftung der Sparkasse Osnabrück, Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung/gkfd and Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.

Guided tour an mini-workshop: At Talk&Table you get an exhibition tour. Afterwards, you can also work on the topic of accessibility yourself.

Glitter collage

The glitter collage is part of the Kunsthalle's educational offer for the current exhibition on the subject of accessibility. The focus is on the table.
A group has been working together at the Kunsthalle since summer 2021. It consists of pupils from the State Education Centre for the Hearing Impaired, students of art education from the University of Osnabrück and staff from the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Together, the group has conducted experiments on barrier-free communication in the exhibition.
On January 16, the group invites spectators. Everyone can try out the experiments together. You can be there in the Kunsthalle or digitally from home. Everyone can join in, do it themselves, participate and collect impressions together.

Tip: The mini-workshops can also be booked as part of a guided tour with school classes. Information at vermittlung.kunsthalle@osnabrueck.de

Cooperations: Institut für Gelingende Kommunikation und KunstContainer, HHO GmbH, Institut für Kunst/Kunstpädagogik der Universität Osnabrück

Together with the collective Autofabricantes, Kunsthalle Osnabrück invites you to the digital workshop week Human-Device-Human. Our bodies are individual – many things in our everyday lives are standardised and make it physically difficult to access and participate in social life. Current standards such as mandatory masks, 2G-Plus or distance regulations also increase the barriers in togetherness. In this workshop we want to experiment with object and body. We want to investigate whether and how devices or manufactured artefacts can mediate between body and world in different scenarios and question them.

Over the course of seven days, all participants will receive instructions that will encourage them to design a prototype (analogue or digital), to carry out a performative everyday action or to solve a small task. We would like to document our results and compile them in a collective archive.

The workshop is led by Camila Renè Maggi and Francisco Díaz. Both are members of the Autofabricantes working group. And they co-founded the group. The working group is composed of different fields. For example, new technologies, art, architecture, graphics, health and science.

Participation is open to all people, with or without previous experience in creative, technical, scientific or social fields.

Learning opens up our horizons. Everything newly learnt brings us a little closer to the things and creatures of this world – learning is great! So why should we UNlearn? Sometimes we learn behaviours that get in the way of togetherness and a diverse worldview. We develop prejudices that can lead to people in our society being treated less favourably than others. None of us is free from prejudices. They are learned – but where, how and from whom? And how can we unlearn them in order to gain a new perspective?
A research group is meeting at the Kunsthalle to address these questions. It consists of people who investigate barriers regarding language, body, gender, origin and class. Together we want to recognise the barriers. We want to unlearn prejudices. And learn new barrier-free thinking.

On December 4, from 14:00 to 17:00 the group is open to the public – everyone can join. You are invited to join in the discussion and research. Together we will develop texts, images and other materials.

How do we smell? How do we taste? How do our senses actually work? How can we consciously smell and taste? And what happens as a result? Smells often trigger feelings: We perceive them as pleasant, disgusting, calming or invigorating...
We have prepared several exercises. The exercises connect smelling and tasting with our own memories and stories. Together we will do research on Sunday, 21.11.2021 in the current exhibitions of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. This will be followed by direct testing with prepared smelling and tasting samples at the Talk&Table table. This Talk&Table is an observation test for everyone who wants to experience: How surprisingly can the senses of smelling and tasting be extended by the sense of sight?

Good to know: You can also book the mini workshops as part of an exhibition tour with school classes. For further information please contact: vermittlung.kunsthalle@osnabrueck.de

Cooperations: Institut für Gelingende Kommunikation und KunstContainer, HHO GmbH, Institut für Kunst/Kunstpädagogik der Universität Osnabrück

The Volxtheater of the theatre workshop Bethel has developed a new play. It is called Transformers. Transformation means change. By transformers, we mean people who initiate change in society. They help shape these changes. This new play will be developed in exchange with the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. It references the art and the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. The actors of the Volxbühne are not trained in acting. Together with professionals they work on current topics. The new play of the Volxtheater focusses on the topics of the actors. But it is also about accessibility. What kind of experiences have the actors made with the topic?

Together we will have two workshops. Together we will get to know the works, installations and exhibits better. [An exhibit is something that is shown in an exhibition. For example an art work.] [An installation is an art work in a room.] We conquer the Kunsthalle. Everything is possible. Everything is self-determined. Everyone can take part. You do not need any prior experience. The theater play will be developed from the two workshops. It will be performed on two days in February. For the theater days called Reality Check.

The workshops take place in the Kunsthalle. You can take part in the workshops and the performance. The workshop dates do not build on each other, so you can also register for individual workshop dates. You can also participate in the workshops without playing in the performance. If you wish, you are also welcome to participate in all the dates.

Dates:

Sunday, 24.10.21, Workshop 14:00–16:00
Sunday, 14.11.21, Workshop 14:00–17:00
Saturday, 26.02.22, Performance 14:00
Sunday, 27.02.22, Performance 14:00

Supported by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, Regionale Kulturpolitik NRW, the Fonds Soziokultur and die Stiftung der Sparkasse Bielefeld.

The Volxtheater of the theatre workshop Bethel has developed a new play. It is called Transformers. Transformation means change. By transformers, we mean people who initiate change in society. They help shape these changes. This new play will be developed in exchange with the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. It references the art and the exhibition space of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. The actors of the Volxbühne are not trained in acting. Together with professionals they work on current topics. The new play of the Volxtheater focusses on the topics of the actors. But it is also about accessibility. What kind of experiences have the actors made with the topic?

Together we will have two workshops. Together we will get to know the works, installations and exhibits better. [An exhibit is something that is shown in an exhibition. For example an art work.] [An installation is an art work in a room.] We conquer the Kunsthalle. Everything is possible. Everything is self-determined. Everyone can take part. You do not need any prior experience. The theater play will be developed from the two workshops. It will be performed on two days in February. For the theater days called Reality Check.

Dates:

Sunday, 24.10.21, Workshop 14:00–16:00
Sunday, 14.11.21, Workshop 14:00–16:00
Saturday, 26.02.22, Performance 14:00
Sunday, 27.02.22, Performance 14:00

Supported by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW, Regionale Kulturpolitik NRW, the Fonds Soziokultur and die Stiftung der Sparkasse Bielefeld.

The artists Slavs and Tatars aren’t exhibiting in the rooms of the Kunsthalle. They are exhibiting in a kebab restaurant in Osnabrück. It operates just as usual. But Slavs and Tatars change our perspective on this space. They believe: mind and stomach are a union, they belong together. Therefore they believe: the restaurant should be extended. Then you will get not only food for the stomach and the body there, but also food for thinking and learning. They mix the work in the kebab restaurant with art, with poems and texts. That way they show: food and thought is equally important.

Beyond that Slavs and Tatars will transform the outdoor area of the restaurant. It will become a meeting place. In accordance with the corona restrictions. But you can meet, exchange, talk, read, and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück.

Project partner and restaurant: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13A, 49074 Osnabrück

The event programme with Elona Beqiraj, Adir Jan and Emrah Gökmen, Valentina Lucia, Ana Mekineli, and Stefan Tchernboc is being developed by the curators Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What pressures do I experience?

Event programme

• Saturday, 26.6.2021, 17:30: Reading with Elona Beqiraj: und wir kamen jeden Sommer
• Tuesday, 13.07.2021, 15:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras inside Toros Restaurant
• Thursday, 15.07.2021, 17:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras inside Toros Restaurant
• Saturday, 17.07.2021, 17:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras inside Toros Restaurant
• Monday, 26.07.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras inside Toros Restaurant
• Wednesday, 28.07.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras inside Toros Restaurant
• Friday, 30.07.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras inside Toros Restaurant
• Wednesday, 04.08.2021, 19:00: Stefan Tchernboc – Performance
• Saturday, 07.08.2021, 19:00: Stefan Tchernboc – Performance
• Thursday, 16.09.2021, 17:00: Valentina Lucia – Performance
• Saturday, 18.09.2021, 19:00: Valentina Lucia – Performance
• Tuesday, 21.09.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras (episode 2) inside Toros Restaurant
• Thursday, 23.09.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras (episode 2) inside Toros Restaurant
• Saturday, 25.09.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras (episode 2) inside Toros Restaurant
• Monday, 27.09.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras (episode 2) inside Toros Restaurant
• Wednesday, 29.09.2021, 19:00: Ana Mekineli – Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras (episode 2) inside Toros Restaurant
• Saturday, 02.10.2021, 17:30: Adir Jan and Emrah Gökmen – Music

There are two podcasts with author Tijan Sila, and with the sisters Ana and Mari Mekineli. You can listen to them here in September.

In addition to participation in numerous group exhibitions and biennials such as the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (2019 - curated by Slavs and Tatars), Berlin Biennale, Manifesta or Venice Biennale (all 2014), since 2008 the works of Slavs and Tatars (founded in Eurasia in 2006) have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions, including. OP ENHEIM, Wrocław, Aspen Gallery, Almaty, (both 2020), Y Gallery, Minsk, Sugar Contemporary, Toronto (both 2019), Albertinum, Dresden, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Westfälischer Kunstverein (all 2018), SALT Galata, Istanbul, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Pejman Foundation, Tehran (all 2017), among others.

The project is supported by Sievert Stiftung, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and Freunde der Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

For the film room We Cannot Skip This Part, curator Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide has put together a film programme. There are different seating areas in the room. The films are shown there. They are translated into different languages: German, English, simple language, sign language, audio description and Braille. [Audio description is needed by blind people. It is described for them: What are you seeing in the film right now? Braille is a script for blind people. You can feel it with your fingers and read it that way].

The title of the programme is derived from the names of the people in each video. The videos are about conversation, speech and song. The videos explore: What do the characters experience in everyday life? Are they ordinary experiences? And how do the people deal with the experiences? All three videos together focus on the knowledge of the persons shown about a whole life. They show: These people want to deal with the environment in a just way. The sequence of the videos follows the age of the people shown.

Click here for the full description of the film programme: filmprogramm_cecilia-onome-kunbi-soni-and-candy.pdf

Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide (NL) is exhibition curator at the Van Abbemuseum. Previously, she was associate director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, where she started as an intern in 2008. She is interested in various intersecting perspectives and modes that decenter the oppressor in practices of freedom and liberation and influence the institutional practice of art. She is co-editor of several books, including Unlearning Exercises: Art Organizations as Sites for Unlearning (Casco Art Institute, Valiz, 2018); Laure Prouvost, This Means Love (Lisson Gallery, Van Abbemuseum, 2021).

Get an insight into the installation I Felt People Dancing by Alison O'Daniel! Click here for the video documentation.

In her art, Alison O’Daniel combines film, sculpture, and sound to create big installations. [An installation is an artwork in a space.] Alison O’Daniel is hard of hearing herself. For her art, she works together with hearing, deaf, and hard of hearing people. Alison O’Daniel has experienced herself: How does it feel not to hear some information? What gaps does it create? This experience is part of her art. She deals with the question: How can we take in information in other ways? How do we see, hear, and feel this information?
The exhibition at the Kunsthalle is Alison O’Daniel’s first solo exhibition in a german museum. For this exhibition, Alison O’Daniel will conceive a new installation. The exhibition space of the Kunsthalle is situated in an old church. The sound there is special. There is a strong echo. This special feature is part of the installation.
Due to the corona virus pandemic, Alison O’Daniel was not able to travel to Germany in preparation. Therefore she asked a group of deaf and hard of hearing people from Osnabrück for support. They spent time in the exhibition space. They took in the sounds of the space. They captured their impressions. In drawings. Or movements. Out of these impressions, Alison O’Daniel created a big carpet. This carpet relates to misunderstandings. The reason for these misunderstandings are barriers. In addition to the carpet there will be a video work. The sound of the video will be coming from various loud speakers. The speakers are dispersed throughout the room.

Alison O'Daniel lives and works in Los Angeles. She is the winner of the 2019 Louis Comfort Tiffany and Creative Capital award, the same year she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 Newcomer:in in Independent Film. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Film at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Most recently, her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and screenings at prestigious institutions, including the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tallinn Art Hall (all 2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); and Art in General, New York (2016).

The exhibition is supported by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Stiftung der Sparkasse Osnabrück, the Stiftung Niedersachsen and the Freunde der Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

The art by Sabrina Röthlisberger is about the relationship between medicine, healing, education and power. How were they related to each other in the past? And how are they related today? How does that relate to her own medical history? And her biography? Sabrina Röthlisberger tells this story using examples from art history, everyday objects and examples from pop culture. In Osnabrück, she mainly dealt with the topic of witch hunts. [During the middle ages, many women were prosecuted and murdered because people believed them to be witches.] The women were discriminated against. They were excluded. They were burnt. They were sentenced in court as witches. These sentences have never been revoked. You can still feel the impact of this time today. That is what Sabrina Röthlisberger had to think of when she saw the old church building of the Kunsthalle. She will transform this space into a place of remembrance with tombstones, vases and altars as sculptures.

The exhibition with the artist Sabrina Röthlisberger is a cooperation with the Shedhalle Zürich. [The Shedhalle is an art space in Zürich.] The exhibition is different in each place. So that it is connected to the place. To the history of the cities of Zürich and Osnabrück. In both places, the exhibition shows how exclusions of the past and of today are linked.

Sabrina Röthlisberger (CH) lives and works in Geneva. She studied at the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD). Together with Gaia Vincensini, Loren Kagny and Giulia Essyad she founded the collective LGG$B (2014). Röthlisberger's work has most recently been shown in exhibitions at the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (2020), Raum für Kunst, Lucerne (2018), and Kunstmuseum Bern (2017). She has received numerous awards: including the City of Geneva Scholarship and a Pro Helvetia Fellowship together with the Swiss Institute in New York.

The exhibition is supported by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Stiftung Niedersachsen and the Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia.

Adir Jan and Emrah Gökmen have been connected for many years. Both have an intimate friendship and they make music together. Adir Jan is queer. [The word queer is a self-identification. For example, gay men, lesbian women, bisexual people, trans people and inter people use it for themselves]. Adir Jan writes songs. He calls his music Cosmopolitan Kurdesque. They are hits in the Transglobal World Music Charts. Emrah Gökmen has a soul full of love and longing. He lives in Berlin, just like Adir Jan. The two feel connected through their music. And through the Zazaic language. [Zazaic is the language of the Zaza in eastern Turkey]. Adir Jan and Emrah Gökmen express their art with as limited tools as possible: a small long-necked lute, a guitar and their voices. Their voices are very different, but nevertheless they blend into each other. Together, Adir Jan and Emrah Gökmen play old Kurdish-Zaza songs and new pieces of their own, most of which were created in the process of making music together. Their music combines tradition and novelty. Adir Jan and Emrah Gökmen show: Both do not have to contradict each other. If both have enough space and breath.

The concert takes place here: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13 A, 49074 Osnabrück

This event is part of the project Aşbildung by Slavs and Tatars. The artists Slavs and Tatars transform the outdoor area of a restaurant. It will become a meeting place. In accordance with the corona restrictions. But you can meet, exchange, talk, read, and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück. The event series is developed by curator Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What pressures do I experience?

The project is supported by Sievert Stiftung and Freunde der Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

Valentina Lucia is a dancer and choreographer. [A choreographer makes dance plays. She decides: How do the dancers dance the play?] Her dance play Nostalgia Nonni is about Valentina Lucia's grandparents. They came to Germany from Italy. It is about the question: How did their Italian grandparents in Germany pass on important values and memories from their homeland to their children and grandchildren? Do the children and grandchildren also speak Italian? How can one talk about love when the grandchildren no longer speak the language of their grandparents? How do you talk about care and concern?
Many people came to Germany as guest workers. They were only wanted to work in Germany. What did that do to them?
Nostalgia Nonni celebrates migrant parents and grandparents. [Migrant means: the parents or grandparents came to Germany from another country and now live here].

The performance will take place here: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13 A, 49074 Osnabrück

This event is part of the project Aşbildung by Slavs and Tatars. The artists Slavs and Tatars transform the outdoor area of a restaurant. It will become a meeting place. In accordance with the corona restrictions. But you can meet, exchange, talk, read, and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück. The event series is developed by curator Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What pressures do I experience?

The project is supported by Sievert Stiftung and Freunde der Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

Valentina Lucia is a dancer and choreographer. [A choreographer makes dance plays. She decides: How do the dancers dance the play?] Her dance play Nostalgia Nonni is about Valentina Lucia's grandparents. They came to Germany from Italy. It is about the question: How did their Italian grandparents in Germany pass on important values and memories from their homeland to their children and grandchildren? Do the children and grandchildren also speak Italian? How can one talk about love when the grandchildren no longer speak the language of their grandparents? How do you talk about care and concern?
Many people came to Germany as guest workers. They were only wanted to work in Germany. What did that do to them?
Nostalgia Nonni celebrates migrant parents and grandparents. [Migrant means: the parents or grandparents came to Germany from another country and now live here].

The performance will take place here: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13 A, 49074 Osnabrück

This event is part of the project Aşbildung by Slavs and Tatars. The artists Slavs and Tatars transform the outdoor area of a restaurant. It will become a meeting place. In accordance with the corona restrictions. But you can meet, exchange, talk, read, and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück. The event series is developed by curator Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What pressures do I experience?

The project is supported by Sievert Stiftung and Freunde der Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

A conversation with Katrin Dinges, Anne Leichtfuß, Inga Zimprich
Moderation: Anna Jehle and Juliane Schickedanz (Directors Kunsthalle Osnabrück)

The annual theme of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück is Accessibility. And we invite you to an open discussion on this topic. We have invited experts to join us. Together we want to discuss: Can exhibition making and accessibility be thought of together? What hurdles and obstacles can be removed in museums? How can exhibitions become collaborative spaces? How is the audience addressed? How can mediation, art and experiment be combined? Is there even an ideal exhibition experience for everyone? And how can museums achieve this?

Participants:
Katrin Dinges is an artist and writes poetry. She studied German Literature and European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. [Ethnology is the science of different peoples.] She works freelance as an art mediator [That means: she talks to other people about art. For example, in museums] and inclusive cultural mediator [This means: she talks to people with and without disabilities about art. For example in the museum]. She is creative, blind, severely hearing impaired and has a chronic metabolic disorder. [Metabolic disorder means: nutrients from food cannot be processed properly in the body].

Anne Leichtfuß is a light language interpreter and translator. [She works in the participatory research institute TOUCHDOWN 21, for which people with and without Down syndrome conduct joint research, and for the magazine Ohrenkuss ...da rein, da raus.

Inga Zimprich is a cultural worker, mother and works as a care assistant in Berlin. [A care assistant cares for and looks after old people, sick people or people with disabilities]. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, the Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht and the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. Together with Julia Bonn, she founded the Feminist Health Research Group in Berlin. The aim of this group is: health and care should be reorganised. People should take responsibility for it together. The group researches health issues, makes exhibitions, magazines and workshops. Inga Zimprich is also part of the Sickness Affinity Group. This is a group of artists who deal with the themes of illness and disability.

The event will take place within the framework of this year's IKT Congress on the theme of Interconnectivity. The IKT is the association of international curators who meet once a year in a selected city. [Curators select art. For example, for an exhibition or a festival]. A group of German curators will meet in Herford, Bielefeld and Osnabrück in 2021.

You can listen to the panel discussion HERE in German on our YouTube channel. Unfortunately, the video does not yet have subtitles. We are working on it and will update the video as soon as possible.

Stefan Tchernboc was born in Osnabrück in 2000. He studies at the Münster Art Academy. He takes analogue photos. That means: the photos are taken on film. And they are printed on photographic paper. His photos show spaces in the city. Stefan Tchernboc also takes pictures of performances and stage events. The stage events ask questions about culture and belonging.

Asbildung is a series of events at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Stefan Tchernboc invites you to a conversation there about these questions: What is the relationship between interior and exterior? In other words, between inside and outside? What do people who have come to Germany from other countries believe in? What customs do they have? What is the prerequisite for these customs? Why are these customs so important? Do they help people feel at home in a new place?

When: 04.08.2021, 07.08.2021, at 19:00
Where: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13 A, 49074 Osnabrück

This event takes place within the framework of the project Aşbildung by Slavs and Tatars. The artists Slavs and Tatars will transform the outdoor area of a restaurant. It becomes a meeting place with a programme. The Corona rules are observed. But you can meet, exchange ideas, talk, read and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück. The series of events is developed by the curators Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What constraints do I experience?

With the kind support of the Sievert Foundation for Science and Culture and the Friends of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

Stefan Tchernboc was born in Osnabrück in 2000. He studies at the Münster Art Academy. He takes analogue photos. That means: the photos are taken on film. And they are printed on photographic paper. His photos show spaces in the city. Stefan Tchernboc also takes pictures of performances and stage events. The stage events ask questions about culture and belonging.

Asbildung is a series of events at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. Stefan Tchernboc invites you to a conversation there about these questions: What is the relationship between interior and exterior? In other words, between inside and outside? What do people who have come to Germany from other countries believe in? What customs do they have? What is the prerequisite for these customs? Why are these customs so important? Do they help people feel at home in a new place?

When: 04.08.2021, 07.08.2021, at 19:00
Where: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13 A, 49074 Osnabrück

This event takes place within the framework of the project Aşbildung by Slavs and Tatars. The artists Slavs and Tatars will transform the outdoor area of a restaurant. It becomes a meeting place with a programme. The Corona rules are observed. But you can meet, exchange ideas, talk, read and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück. The series of events is developed by the curators Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What constraints do I experience?

With the kind support of the Sievert Foundation for Science and Culture and the Friends of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras with Anna Mekineli: Ana Mekineli was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1997 and was seven months old when her parents emigrated to Germany with her. The podcast Spazieren mit den Migras is a kind of time travel through the life of her family since their arrival in Germany and gives listeners an exemplary insight into the realities of life for migrant families. Spazieren mit den Migras is integrated into the restaurant as an artistic intervention by playing the podcast instead of radio music. With background music performed by Nino I., Tiko P. and Ziniko L.

When: 26.08.2021, 28.07.2021, 30.07.2021, at 19:00
Where: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13 A, 49074 Osnabrück, in the restaurant's interior room

This event is part of the project Aşbildung by Slavs and Tatars. The artists Slavs and Tatars will transform the outdoor area of a restaurant. It becomes a meeting place with a programme. The Corona rules are observed. But you can meet, exchange ideas, talk, read and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück. The series of events is developed by the curators Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What constraints do I experience?

With the kind support of the Sievert Foundation for Science and Culture and the Friends of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

Podcast radio Spazieren mit den Migras with Anna Mekineli: Ana Mekineli was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1997 and was seven months old when her parents emigrated to Germany with her. The podcast Spazieren mit den Migras is a kind of time travel through the life of her family since their arrival in Germany and gives listeners an exemplary insight into the realities of life for migrant families. Spazieren mit den Migras is integrated into the restaurant as an artistic intervention by playing the podcast instead of radio music. With background music performed by Nino I., Tiko P. and Ziniko L.

When: 26.08.2021, 28.07.2021, 30.07.2021, at 19:00
Where: Toros Restaurant, Bohmter Straße 13 A, 49074 Osnabrück, in the restaurant's interior room

This event is part of the project Aşbildung by Slavs and Tatars. The artists Slavs and Tatars will transform the outdoor area of a restaurant. It becomes a meeting place with a programme. The Corona rules are observed. But you can meet, exchange ideas, talk, read and eat together. You can watch and listen to artists from Osnabrück. The series of events is developed by the curators Bêriya (Özlem) Susan, supported by Hana Ćurak. The events are about these topics: What does home mean to me? Where is my home? Where is my family's home? What culture do I come from? And in which culture do I live now? Do I long for a home? How may I show myself? Do I belong? What is normal? What constraints do I experience?

With the kind support of the Sievert Foundation for Science and Culture and the Friends of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück e.V.

Online-workshop with Toni Mosebach: How do I win the prize money if I am neither particularly sporty nor very knowledgeable? This workshop may give you some ideas. We study famous cheaters and then put our knowledge to the test by playing some games.

Important: Before the workshop all participants will be provided with material boxes by our delivery service. These will contain everything that is necessary for the workshop. Let us know if you need technical support from us to participate!

Toni Mosebach makes installations, objects, videos, and performances. Toni is one third of YOR (Nataly Hulikova, Susanne Beck). YOR makes music, plays concerts and creates installations. These installations function as stage, meeting point and hang out space in one.

Our regular Sunday tours are transforming into a new, digital offer. Starting next Sunday, anyone interested can join the Telegram guided tour through the exhibition Upaya by Mickey Yang – free of charge and without registration!
The TELE4 format broadcasts, photos, films, texts on the exhibition and impulses for action by Helene Baldursson and Clara Wolff. It offers opportunities for interaction and at the same time, of course, just watching and listening is just as possible. The programme is broadcast every Sunday between 4pm and 5pm.

Here's how it works technically:

• Download the Telegram app on your mobile phone or computer.
• Click on this link: t.me/tele4KH
• You've successfully joined our TELE4-channel!

Dates:
January 31, 4–5pm
February 7, 4–5pm
February 14, 4–5pm

Get an insight into the installation I Felt People Dancing by Alison O'Daniel! Click here for the video documentation.

Mickey Yang creates installations, objects and videos. Her art is about people’s individual perceptions. Meaning: How do people perceive different objects? Or nature? Why do different people see the world differently? Why is that? Is it because of the place they live in? Is it because of their culture? Is it because of the media? The word Upaya comes from buddhism. It describes the path of cognition. Meaning the way a person comes to Buddhism. What this person learns from it. What changes as a result. It is also about misunderstandings on this path. And about disappointments. They are the topic of this exhibition. Apart from that, it is about the question: How do people understand each other? How do they exchange ideas? It is about language. About hearing and feeling. And about secret codes. What do we perceive? Is that really true? All of that will be re-examined in Mickey Yang’s art.

Mickey Yang (*1988, Eindhoven, NL) lives and works in Eindhoven. She studied Fine Arts at the Royal Academy The Hague and at the ArtEZ University of Arts Arnhem. She was a scholar at Beeldenstorm/Daglicht from 2017 to 2018, at De Fabriek in 2019 and at the Jan van Eyck Academy 2020 to 2021. Mickey Yang showed her work in various solo and group exhibitions, among others at P////AKT, Amsterdam (2019), at Art Rotterdam (2019), and in Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (2017). The Kunsthalle Osnabrück is hosting her first solo exhibition in Germany.

The exhibition by Mickey Yang is supported by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Stiftung Niedersachsen, the Mondriaan Fund, Stroom Den Haag and the Freund:innen der Kunsthalle.

For Rosalie Schweiker, art is a social event. That means: she doesn’t create art for herself alone, in her studio, without any connection to others. Her art develops in collaboration with other artists and people. They communicate and work together. That’s how it is in this exhibition, too. Rosalie Schweiker knew: she would get to show her art at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. And there is a budget for this exhibition. That means money used for the exhibition to come about. People will come and view the exhibition. Rosalie wants to share this money and that space. That’s why she did the exhibition together with others. The exhibition is about the Coronavirus crisis. The exhibition was planned during the time of the Coronavirus, and that transformed it. It consists of various art works by various people. The visitors can make a book out of it. This book is a present to all the people viewing the exhibition. Personal stories by the artists will be told. They will be told in a public space, in this museum. That way, there is a connection between the public and the private. The exhibition is called Crisis Communication. It raises questions like: How do we talk about the Coronavirus crisis? In public? And in private? Which role does the Coronavirus play in the lives of people? What changes for people with a lot of money due to the crisis? What changes for people with little money? What changes for old people? For sick people? For people with disabilities? There are many inequalities in our society. The Coronavirus highlights them. Rosalie Schweiker thinks: that must not be normal. These inequalities are the subject of the exhibition. And they are the subject of workshops by the Kunsthalle alongside the exhibition.

With contributions by: Teresa Cisneros, Joon Lynn Goh, Sahra Hersi, Kerri Jefferis, Jean Joseph, Sarah Jury, Sofia Niazi, Rose Nordin, Lisa Rahman, Nicola Singh, Sam Whetton

Rosalie Schweiker does not use CVs.

The exhibition and art mediation programme by Rosalie Schweiker is supported by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Stiftung Niedersachsen and the Freund:innen der Kunsthalle.

On the basis of the Ordinance on Measures against the Spread of the Corona Virus SARS-Cov-2 of the State of Lower Saxony, the Kunsthalle will remain closed from November 2, 2020 until probably February 14, 2021. We will keep you up to date on the developments here on the website and on our social media channels.

Jovana Reisinger is an artist, film maker and writer. The way she tells stories in her films is very unique. Also humorous. It is about women’s rights and the coexistence of people. Jovana Reisinger developed an installation for the church of the Kunsthalle. Some of her older films will be shown there. Also, the church itself will become the setting for her video series Men in Trouble. Six of the videos will be shot in the church. It is a series of conversations. The conversations are funny and tragic at the same time. They will take place during the exhibition’s run time. The audience is invited to visit the shootings. The conversations are about the following questions: What is masculine? What is feminine? What makes a person beautiful? Who holds the power? Who is excluded? Why doesn’t everyone have the same rights? Jovana Reisinger films these videos with the actress Julia Riedler. And also with the actors and actresses of the Spielclub of the theatre of Osnabrück. The new videos will be shown on our website from 13/01/2021. They will also be shown at the Cinema Arthouse in Osnabrück.

Visitors can participate as an audience in the live-shootings on the following dates:*

• Sun, 11/10/2020, 10:00–12:00, 13:00–15:00, 16:00–18:00
• Sun, 29/11/2020, 10:00–12:00, 13:00–15:00, 16:00–18:00

With: Ludwig Abraham (Composition), Sophia Grüdelbach (Theater educator), Anna Lena von Helldorff (Graphic), Katharina Merten (Camera), Lilli-Rose Pongratz (Camera), Katharina Pia Schütz (Set Design), Lucia Schütz (Stylist), Mirko Schütz (Animation), Elke von Sivers (Costume design)

Jovana Reisinger (* 1980 in Munich, DE) lives and works in Munich. After her graduation in communication design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, she studied Screenplay at the University of Television and Film Munich, where she will also receive a diploma in Film and Television Documentary. For her debut novel Still Halten, which was published in 2017 by Verbrecher Verlag and which won the Bayern 2-Wortspiele prize in 2018, she was granted a residency at the Literary Colloquium Berlin, as well as a residency by the Goethe Institute China in 2019. She shot multiple short films, which were shown at exhibitions and festivals; amongst others, they were exhibited at Goethe Institute Paris (2020), in yi: project space Beijing (2019), KV — Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (2019), Kunstverein Munich (2018), and at the International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen (2017, 2019). Her short film pretty boyz don’t die won the ZONTA prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2017), and pretty girls don’t lie won the Starter film prize of Munich (2018). Her second novel will be published in 2021 at Verbrecher Verlag as well.

The exhibition by Jovana Reisinger is supported by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Stiftung Niedersachsen, the OLB-Stiftung and the Freund:innen der Kunsthalle. The installation was realized with the kind support of Gering Gerüstbau. The film shoots are realized in cooperation with the Theater Osnabrück and the Cinema Arthouse.

*The film set by Jovana Reisinger is not barrier-free.

Online-workshop with Nadja Buttendorf: For a long time, there have been big demonstrations in Germany. Demonstrations with huge banners. Demonstrations about climate change. Greta Thunberg became famous with that. But: the times of these big demonstrations are over. Since the Coronavirus pandemic started, protests have moved to the internet, to social media. On the internet, protest signs have become smaller and smaller. Wordplay and ironical-critical comments also play a role there. People use hashtags to protest, for example: #ClimateStrikeOnline and #LeaveNoOneBehind.
The Workshop will take place in a video chat. In the chat, we paint our protest onto our fingernails. We demonstrate online. We create protest images which can be used on social media. We call our protest: Never not striking nails. Fingernails are a very small part of the body. But they are always visible – and thereby the protest is, too. WE WANT HOT NAILS, NOT A HOT PLANET!

Important: Before the workshop all participants will be provided with material boxes by our delivery service. These will contain everything that is necessary for the workshop. Let us know if you need technical support from us to participate!

Nadja Buttendorf questions: which norms and codes make a man a man? And which make a woman a woman? And in what ways do men still hold more power than women? What is the worth of a body? What difference do technology and digitalization make in that regard? Nadja Buttendorf’s video projects are stories from a new perspective. They show us: Women are part of the history of technology. In Nadja Buttendorf’s videos they become visible. Nadja Buttendorfs works are interactive. That means: they are shaped by their audience. That is also the case with the online workshops. Nadja Buttendorf creates video tutorials for the internet. And she makes very peculiar jewellery which are good conversation starters. The jewellery and the video tutorials show that there are many things you can make yourself. Even with little money.
Works and workshops by Nadja Buttendorf have been on display in these places, among others: at HKW Berlin, at the Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund, at the Künstlerhaus Bremen, at LaGaîtéLyrique Paris, at MU EIndhoven, at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, at the Halle 14 Center for contemporary art Leipzig, at D21 Leipzig, as well as the pankegallery Berlin. She has given Lecture Performances, among other places, at the Re:publica, at the CCC, Creamcake or the nGbK Berlin. Nadja Buttendorf is a trained goldsmith and studied Fine Art at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.

Online-workshop with Joran Yonis: You know your body pretty well. But what if you could change it? What would it look like then? What would it be able to do that it can’t do yet? And what would this new body feel like? In this workshop we will transform our bodies. We will expand them. We will examine: how smoothly is my body able to move? Which purposes does it serve? And what are the possibilities that this body provides me with? Then we will transform our bodies. With the help of alginate and other materials. (Alginate is a material made from algae. You can make gel with it. It is both fluid and firm.) In a next step we will try and learn to sense our new and transformed bodies.

Important: Before the workshop all participants will be provided with material boxes by our delivery service. These will contain everything that is necessary for the workshop. Let us know if you need technical support from us to participate!

Joran Yonis is interested in bodies. Their mobility. Their transformations. That is why this is the theme of this workshop. In his art, Joran Yonis primarily deals with the question: what are the balances of power in our society? Besides that, Joran Yonis works at the University of Osnabrück. There he is currently working on his dissertation.

Online-workshop with Alla Popp: Augmented reality filters have become more and more popular in recent years. [Augmented reality means: reality is extended by computer information] Since 2019, augmented reality has become a tool for artists. With an augmented reality filter you can change faces. And rooms. That changes what we see. But it has no impact on our bodies … or does it? In this beginners workshop you learn how to build and use your first Instagram face filter. And what using these filters has to do with politics.

Alla Popp is an artist for digital media and performing arts. She was born in Russia. There she graduated in Public Administration. She did her Masters in Transition Studies at the University of Gießen. Afterwards she studied electronic media and performance at the School of Art and Design Offenbach, the Tongji University and the Athens School of Fine Arts. Alla Popp is a feminist. That means: she advocates for women’s rights. She observes the advances in computer technology. And how they shape our future. Her art is multifaceted: computer and internet art, happenings on stage, music, live experiences and art in collaboration with others are all part of her work.

Online-workshop with Clara Wolff: This workshop is about material and about bodies. How malleable is our body? Which molds are we forced into? You will shape and perform with the help of dough material. We will test out where our body’s limits lie. How can we soften up the rigid borders of our body? We want to explore our body’s formal vocabulary, form a dough body, and see: does the dough body become a foreign body? We will find our favorite body shape, feel into the sensed body: what does the inner appearance do with the outer appearance?

Important: Before the workshop all participants will be provided with material boxes by our delivery service. These will contain everything that is necessary for the workshop. Let us know if you need technical support from us to participate!

Clara Wolff studied clinical psychology in Vienna, Strasbourg, and Osnabrück. She also works in this field. Apart from this work she has always been involved with art, too. She studies art education and philosophy at the University of Osnabrück since 2019. She wants to connect these two areas of her work. That’s why she is interested in art therapy.

Online-workshop with Rosalie Schweiker: On the 15th, 16th, and 17th of January, Rosalie Schweiker will give you a writing assignment. Always in the time between 10pm–10:30pm. We meet on Zoom. We only live-stream the sound, not the image. Everyone can participate. Even if you don’t have any experience with art or writing. The offer is for anyone who likes to spend time with themselves. And you learn something about writing in a time of crisis.

Online-workshop with Manila Bartnik: Latex is an interesting material. It looks exciting. It’s part of our everyday life. We sleep on a mattress made of latex. Small children are being comforted by latex soothers. We wear latex clothing. But what else can you make with latex? What if the material doesn’t have to be useful? What kind of things can you develop with it? What kind of things to lie on, to put in your mouth, to put on or put over? That’s what we want to find out in this workshop.

Manila Bartnik is an artist living in Osnabrück with her family. In her work, she examines relationships, connections, and dependencies between people. She deals with topics that are difficult in our society. She is interested in questions like: How do we start a conversation about important and difficult topics? How do we find a common language for that? And how does that help us change and renew something?

The church itself will become the setting for her video series Men in Trouble.* Six of the videos will be shot in the church. It is a series of conversations. The conversations are funny and tragic at the same time. They will take place during the exhibition’s run time. The audience is invited to visit the shootings. The conversations are about the following questions: What is masculine? What is feminine? What makes a person beautiful? Who holds the power? Who is excluded? Why doesn’t everyone have the same rights?

Shooting times 10:00–12:00, 13:00–15:00, 16:00–18:00

*The film set by Jovana Reisinger is not barrier-free.

Online-workshop with Clara Wolff: What kind of material is latex? Can you make it yourself? And if so, how? Together with the participants, Clara Wolff cooks up a pretty viscious latex soup in the digital cooking studio. Surprisingly many things are made out of latex. Maybe this won’t feel so strange after all. How do we deal with these things in our every day life? There will be a second workshop on Friday, 04/12/2020. In this workshop you can continue to work with the material latex.

Clara Wolff studied clinical psychology in Vienna, Strasbourg, and Osnabrück. She also works in this field. Apart from this work she has always been involved with art, too. She studies art education and philosophy at the University of Osnabrück since 2019. She wants to connect these two areas of her work. That’s why she is interested in art therapy.

Online-workshop with Rosalie Schweiker: Rosalie Schweiker's workshop takes place online, but it remains a workshop for all those who want to get their hands dirty. Together with Rosalie Schweiker, we will experiment with papers and a large portion of paste, create individual collages and make lights to carry into the evening. You don't need any talents or existing knowledge about art. We try things out together. Everyone can participate.

Important: Before the workshop all participants will be provided with material boxes by our "delivery service". These will contain everything that is necessary for the workshop. Let us know if you need technical support from us to participate!

Rosalie Schweiker doesn’t use CVs.

David Polzin’s art is about the life in the former GDR. How do people today remember the GDR and how life was there? How was the GDR depicted in the media? How did that change in the time after the reunification? How do the people feel after the reunification? What were people’s hopes and dreams? And who was disappointed? These are the questions that David Polzin grapples with. David Polzin deals with the history of design and architecture in West and East Germany. David Polzin recounts this history with the help of chairs. He re-worked them into new sculptures. Some of these chairs are unique pieces with a very special design. Others have been mass produced and everyone could have bought them for little money. How did the living spaces in East Germany look like? And how did they look in West Germany? And what influence did politics have on that?

David Polzin (*1982, Henningsdorf, DE) lives and works in Berlin. He studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Berlin Weißensee with Eran Schaerf and Karin Sander. In 2016, he was granted the Global Exchange Stipend of the Federal State of Berlin for Los Angeles/Pasadena, which also included a guest professorship at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. In 2008, he founded the collective Klozin together with Wilhelm Klotzek. They have been exhibiting together regularly since then. Polzin’s works have frequently been exhibited in renowned institutions, such as the Mitte Museum Berlin (2020), Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (2019), Neuer Berliner Kunsverein (2018), the LAMOA, Los Angeles (2017), the Heidelberger Kunstverein (2016), and the MMW Frankfurt (2013).

The exhibition by David Polzin is supported by the Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Stiftung Niedersachsen and the Freund:innen der Kunsthalle.

Workshop with Helene Baldursson: Objects are solid, rough, smooth, light, or heavy. Sometimes they are unremarkable, but you can see them everywhere. You can describe objects in many different ways. One thing is for sure, though: objects don’t just disappear with a snap of the finger. But do they stay forever? Or can an object just disappear? Could an object even represent the disappearance? Can art find an answer to these questions? We invite you, to collectively get rid of and do away with things.

Helene Baldursson studies art and art education in Osnabrück since 2014. Art education to her means finding a new perspective. A new perspective on what is being looked at, explored, and talked about together. Every movement creates a new way of seeing art and life.

All across the world, the Coronavirus pandemic is an important topic right now. Everyone is talking about it. Pandemic means: the virus is spreading all over the world. There are many conspiracy theories because of the pandemic. Many people believe in conspiracy theories. A conspiracy theory is used to explain: Why does the Coronavirus exist? Where does it come from? Or. Does the virus even exist? Conspiracy theories want to find simple explanations. About the Coronavirus pandemic there is this conspiracy theory, for example: Bill Gates wants to force everyone to get vaccinated. Or: The virus has been invented on purpose. It’s about power and money. This talk is about these conspiracy theories. And about the findings of scientists. In 2020, the annual theme of the Kunsthalle Osnabrück is Disappointment, that’s why the talk asks: Why do so many people believe in conspiracy theories? Are they disappointed by politics? Is that the reason?

Julia Becker (1978 in Wipperfürth, Germany) lives and works in Osnabrück. She studied psychology at the university of Marburg and did a doctorate on women’s internalization of sexism: predictors and antidotes. After her doctorate, she carried out researches at universities in Pennsylvania (Pennstate, USA), Vancouver (Simon Fraser University, Canada) and St Andrews (Scotland). She is a professor for social psychology at the University of Osnabrück since 2013. Her research interests concern themselves with intergroup processes and the stability versus variability of social hierarchies. Concretely, she researches social inequality, prejudices, ideologies, identity-processes and manners of protest.

Workshop with Manila Bartnik: Rubbish, residue, remains — in short, waste. We all know it. No one likes to clean up. You drag it out, postpone it, or just leave it altogether. Why is that? In this workshop we try not to judge the decluttering. We do not say: it’s exhausting. Or useful. Or necessary. We say: cleaning up is art. What is the heap of rubbish at our workshop made of? It’s made of remains of David Polzin’s installation. They haven’t been used in his art work. The participants get to decide: how do I want to clean up? How do I want to sort the waste? What do I do with it? That way, something new comes out of it.

Manila Bartnik is an artist living in Osnabrück with her family. In her work, she examines relationships, connections, and dependencies between people. She deals with topics that are difficult in our society. She is interested in questions like: How do we start a conversation about important and difficult topics? How do we find a common language for that? And how does that help us change and renew something?