Latefa Wiersch: Hannibal
In the organizer's words:
Opening on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 6 pm at the Dortmunder Kunstverein
The starting point for Latefa Wiersch's exhibition at the Dortmunder Kunstverein is the Hannibal high-rise buildings in which the artist grew up in Dortmund-Dorstfeld in the 1980s/90s.
Using performance, photography, film and sculpture, the artist stages her roughly sewn, textile doll figures to create narrative scenes through which she reflects on migration and post-colonial realities in Europe. The dolls are uncanny doppelgangers of the artist and her social environment - new creatures with familiar attributes from pop culture and multiple references to contemporary history.
Her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany shows a comprehensive spatial installation of stage elements and narrative scenes, which are staged like landscapes or in architectural elements. Also on display is a stop-motion film that tells a story about the Hannibal skyscrapers. The exhibition is accompanied by an extensive supporting program. As part of the Dortmund Goes Black 2025 festival, there will also be a performance by the artist at the Kunstverein in spring.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Film evening accompanying the exhibition
7 pm
Dortmunder Kunstverein: Guided tour through the exhibition
8 p.m.
Kino im U: Ali im Paradies - My Name Is Not Ali [OmeU], 92 min. Egypt, 2011, Director: Viola Shafik
While Rainer Werner Fassbinder received international acclaim for his anti-racist film 'Angst essen Seele auf' (Fear Eats the Soul), the character of the Arab guest worker Ali remains an enigmatic figure to this day. In her documentary ALI IM PARADIES, Viola Shafik sheds light on the biography of Moroccan El Hedi Ben Salem M'barek Mohammed Mustafa.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Performance
As part of Schauspiel Dortmund's Dortmund Goes Black Festival 2025 , we are looking forward to a performance by Latefa Wiersch in the setting of the Hannibal, which has been partially reconstructed at the Dortmunder Kunstverein: together with performers, the artist will keep the puppets dancing in the threshold state between dead and alive, turning them into actors and inhabitants of the Hannibal, into contemporary witnesses and storytellers of a social utopia.
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