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 These sentences have never been revoked.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.