Neue Galerie-Ausstellung – "Textile Erinnerungen"

In the organizer's words:

This gallery exhibition focuses on the textile installation by Russian-born artist Varvara Keidan Shavrova, who lives in England and Ireland. Eight screen-printed felt blankets show motifs from her family album. It is a social and performative installation. You can touch the blankets or place them around your shoulders.

The artwork is juxtaposed with historical objects from the Documentation Center's collection: A tablecloth from East Prussia, a bedspread from Bohemia and a tablecloth from Brandenburg.

Textiles such as blankets, tablecloths, handkerchiefs, traditional costumes, coats, cloaks, scarves and throws bear touching witness to difficult experiences and are relics of suffering and deprivation. They represent the deeply human desire to connect with something warm, familiar and familiar and to counteract the painful feeling of loss of home, loneliness and uprootedness.

Experiences that millions of refugees, displaced persons and emigrants share and to whom Varvara Keidan Shavrova's work is addressed.

EVENT

Saturday, February 1, 2025, 4.30 pm, Gallery on the 1st floor Documentation Center Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Berlin

CURRENT TIME

February 2 to November 16, 2025

PROGRAMME

Welcome

Dr. Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Centre Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation

Panel discussion

Varvara Keidan Shavrova, artist and curator, London

Kathrin Becker, Artistic Director, KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin

FURTHER INFORMATION

Admission time: 4.30 pm

Language: The event will be held in English.

FREE ADMISSION

WITH REGISTRATION