Gespräch in der Ausstellung Zauri Matikashvili. You may not want to be here mit Zauri Matikashvili und Silke Schönfeld

Together with Zauri Matikashvili, visual artist and filmmaker Silke Schönfeld looks at the similarities and differences in their working methods. Both artists studied together at the Kunstakademie Münster under Aernout Mik and turned to documentary filmmaking, which they repeatedly break up. Similarities and differences in their artistic practices form the basis for the discussion, which not only deals with the works shown, but also with working on films in general.

With "You may not want to be here", the Kunsthalle Münster is showing Zauri Matikashvili's first institutional solo exhibition, 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.