Finissage & Lesung: Rückzugsort – (Bau)Körper als Zuhause? Zuhause als Gefühl

In the organizer's words:

Retreat -
(Building) body as home? Home as a feeling

Until 10.05.2025

10.05. Finissage with reading, 4 pm

The beginning of May marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Jörn Thiede goes in search of traces of past wars. He photographs bunkers and walls from all over Europe. Mirka Raito translates the emotional world of people into pictures and sculptures. Wars punch holes in architecture and create rifts between people. Wars cause destruction and injuries, not only on the outside, but also on the inside. What could reconnect people? What kind of environment can provide security?

In their exhibition, which is part of the Nachtspeicher23 annual program in the context of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war (World War II), Mirka Raito and Jörn Thiede are primarily concerned with places of retreat - in both a psychological and physical sense. While Mirka Raito's works deal with injuries and traumas in emotional worlds and relationship landscapes, Jörn Thiede shows concrete manifestations of places of retreat: bunkers and walls from all over Europe, which he uses to question the concept of a place of retreat.

The interplay of materials from the works shown here illustrates the tension between life and decay, healing and injury, strength and fragility and invites a multi-layered dialog about freedom and security.

Opening hours:
Tuesday: 7-9 p.m.
Friday: 7-9 p.m.
Saturday: 3-6 p.m.