Lisa Nürnberger: Fassade

LISA NÜRNBERGER: FASSADE

KABUFF Exhibition & Reading

Thu, July 16, 2026 | 7:00 p.m. | KABUFF in the Bildhauerhalle, E-WERK
 

TB_08_04_26 ART DREAM 

A soothing surface.
10 minutes, 10 sentences.
My mind isn’t quite sure what it’s thinking anymore, because it isn’t thinking—it’s just functioning, buzzing, and talking to me.
As if something isn’t quite right. I’m not afraid, and yet I’m frozen in place—sitting, standing, and walking.
My hand doesn’t touch anything; everything is disconnected and weightless.
Slightly beautiful, slight relief, slightly untouchable, and heavy, heavy.
My feelings keep climbing the minus-5 gradient, then up to 0, then back down to the rosy plane, then back to 0. There are no real fluctuations in level, but that’s how it was set up from the start. I’m not training anymore, and I don’t have any head protection either.
I would have liked to have had it. I would have liked the shooter to have appeared and plunged into the depths with me.
Nothing resembles anything else anymore, and I’m shifting a lot—and nothing—all at once.
Mountains of tears, grief, lumps full of sauce made of dispersion and transparency.
My neck doesn’t exist, yet there’s a fracture—in my knee, in my leg, in my wrist—where will the pain come from when there’s nothing left to hold on to?
There is no such thing as self-pity, there is no such thing as disappearing, there is no such thing as trusting in the good—but it simply is.
I trust the beginning of beginnings, the allure of allures.
My fear is barely bigger than a louse, compared to before. My eyeball dilates and stares glassily ahead, but the windshield wipers will come to clear my view.
The sun will come, melting the ice; the earth, lying there as hard as a crust, will be churned up, conjured and done away with by jackhammers.
Night after night, hunger and splendor come upon us all.
I’m not just speaking for myself here. My life, like that of so many others, has no more and no less significance.

Text & Poster: Lisa Nürnberger

Lisa Nürnbergerstudied sculpture under Tobias Rehberger at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, as well as painting, drawing, and performance art under Heiner Blum at the Offenbach University of Art and Design. At the same time, she has been producing electronic music for club settings and art performances since 2018. In 2021, she ran the NUERNBERGER studio and exhibition space in Offenbach, and since October 2025, she has been directing the HÉROINE art space in Frankfurt am Main together with her collective. Since 2026, Lisa Nürnberger has also been working under the name BA Sela.