Performance „Vantage Point“ von Olga Hohmann im Rahmen der Ausstellung „nebula“

In the organizer's words:

[DE]

Vantage Point
Performance by Olga Hohmann
as part of the exhibition "nebula"

on July 25, 2025, 7 to 8 pm
Gallery in Saalbau, Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln
Free admission

"If Easter is always in the east and the west is always in the west, can you point to the south and say there is south, not to mention the crucial question of whether the north is always in the north? It depends on the point of view."
- Reinhard Lettau, On the question of cardinal points

In her reading performance "Vantage Point", the author and performer quite literally deals with the question of the point of view, which, as obvious as it may seem, is never quite identical to another. Even the view of the lamp above the table at which we eat dinner together is always slightly different from the view of the person sitting next to us, depending on which chair the host has placed us in. The conatruity of the obligatory gaze on the question of the cardinal points - and the ideological hierarchies that go with it - becomes particularly clear when the first Whole Earth Image The Blue Marble is turned around so that the first view of the earth as a whole corresponds to Western conventions of perception.

In her text, Olga Hohmann repeatedly changes perspective and adopts different positions, allowing her to speak from different voices.

In doing so, she speaks from the multidimensional perspective of her friend, who once said: "I want to have binoculars with which I can look in all directions at once".

The idea of clarity emerging from the nebulous, perhaps kaleidoscopic, remains, fortunately, an illusion.

[EN]

Vantage Point
Performance by Olga Hohmann
as part of the exhibition "nebula"

on July 25, 2025, 7 to 8 pm
Gallery in Saalbau, Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln
Admission free

"Is the East always in the east, the West forever in the west? Can one confidently point south and say: there lies the South-let alone answer the more decisive question: is the North always found in the north? It depends on one's vantage point."
- Reinhard Lettau, On the Question of the Cardinal Directions

In her reading performance Vantage Point, author and performer Olga Hohmann engages-quite literally-with the question of perspective. As self-evident as it may seem, no viewpoint is ever exactly the same as another. Even the way one sees the lamp above the dinner table differs subtly, depending on which chair the host has assigned to you-never quite matching the view of the person seated beside you.

The constructed nature of what we consider a "fixed perspective" becomes particularly apparent when we recall that the first image of the Earth as a whole-TheBlue Marble-hadto be rotated to conform to Western conventions of orientation and perception. The question of cardinal directions, and the ideological hierarchies they imply, is never neutral.

In her text, Hohmann repeatedly shifts perspective, inhabiting different positions and allowing them to speak through distinct voices. Among them is that of a close friend, who once said:
"I want to have binoculars with which I can look in all directions at once."

The idea of clarity-of something emerging cleanly from the nebulous, perhaps kaleidoscopic-thankfully remains an illusion.

Exhibition duration / Ausstellungsdauer
19.07.2025 - 21.09.2025

Curator / Curator
Diana Nowak