MUR BRUT 38

In the organizer's words:

What happens when a place loses its usual order? What images emerge between the masses and the individual? Helene Kuschnarew's pictorial spaces deliberately remain open: they take up shifts without defining them. Social and institutional structures are hinted at, moral and cultural norms touched upon, taboo subjects only touched upon.

How big are 360 hectares? As big as 504 soccer pitches, seven times the size of the Vatican or around 5,000 tennis courts - or Wacken.

The title 360 hectares refers to the village of Wacken, which temporarily becomes a large town thanks to the annual heavy metal festival Wacken Open Air. Between a few thousand inhabitants and tens of thousands of visitors, a state of emergency is created that raises questions about community, ritual and collective identity. The site functions simultaneously as a real reference and as a carrier of collective and individual memory.

Transience and ephemerality appear as structural principles, for example when pigment dust is applied directly to the wall and then removed again. Kuschnarew's practice operates in a field of tension between archiving, traces and superimposition, in which images are formed as provisional states.

Invited by Fiona Pauline Borowski

Helene Kuschnarew graduated in 2025 as a master student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Peter Piller.