Gespräch in der Ausstellung "Zauri Matikashvili. You may not want to be here" mit Sarah Hübscher und Zauri Matikashvili

In his films, Zauri Matikashvili asks how people's everyday lives are linked to power and resistance, how societies function in detail or not. In the conversation between Sarah Hübscher and Zauri Matikashvili, this artistic examination of democracy and how to endure it is supplemented by a scientific perspective. The art, cultural and educational scientist is a visiting professor for inclusion and anti-discrimination in art education and aesthetic education at the Kunstakademie Münster. The social and political discourses of the artistic works serve as a starting point for the discussion.

With "You may not want to be here", the Kunsthalle Münster is showing the first institutional solo exhibition by Zauri Matikashvili, providing an insight into the work of the Georgian artist. In addition to his new two-channel video installation "Passing the Glass" (2026), which celebrates its premiere as part of the exhibition at Kunsthalle Münster, two of Matikashvili's older films, "In Katernberg" (2022) and "Made in Europe" (2023), will also be shown. The cinematic works are complemented by his series "You may not want to be here" (since 2024) - a series of sculptures that run through the entire exhibition space and enter into a dialog with his cinematic works.

Zauri Matikashvili's films are dedicated to individual people, groups of people or places. From different perspectives, he focuses on themes such as identity, traditional role models, segregation, belonging, fragmentation, racism and increasing repression. Against the backdrop of a regression of democracy, the confrontation with increasing authoritarian populism, a general political shift to the right and growing social inequalities, Matikashvili's works have a particular urgency.

The talk will be held in German.