Eröffnung & Performance SHAME - Saskia Tamara Kaiser

In the organizer's words:

The new solo show SHAME opens the second exhibition at the VAW - Vitrine am Wasserturm with a performance by artist Saskia Tamara Kaiser (*1994).

In her performative and sculptural works, Saskia Tamara Kaiser deals with the contexts of human pain as a result of her own biographical experiences. At VAW, the artist presents her new work SHAME for the first time in a spatial installation developed especially for the venue together with other performers. The performance addresses shame as a structural, gender-specific condition in a society increasingly characterized by a compulsion for visibility and representation. In dialog with the visitors, grotesquely grinning smartphone mouths, blood-soaked bodies and fragmented mirror images condense into a media-critical allegory of mechanisms of digital self-staging and conditioning.

Saskia Tamara Kaiser lives and works in Bonn and Düsseldorf. Since 2019, the trained glass painter has been studying sculpture in Prof. Gregor Schneider's class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Her works have been exhibited and performed several times, most recently at the Kunstmuseum Solingen, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Live Lab Studios, Düsseldorf, and the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, among others.

VAW - Vitrine am Wasserturm is a newly founded exhibition space initiated by Areal Böhler. From April 2025, temporary exhibitions of contemporary art will be held here on a quarterly basis. The first four exhibitions will be curated by Benny Höhne, founder of the art portal ArtJunk. Areal Böhler is a commercial district in Düsseldorf that has developed into a lively event and trade fair location on the 230,000 square meter site of a former steelworks. Companies from a wide range of sectors, restaurants, sports and leisure facilities make the area a popular place to work and visit, which is set to become an even more lively and diverse location for regional and international visitors in the coming years. The focus is on the careful revitalization of the historic event halls, which are to offer more space for culture, events and creative formats.