In the organizer's words:

OF MIGHTY WINDS AND DOWNY FLAKES
Nadine Baldow * Ralph Hauser * Mirjam Pajakowski * Olga Pfeffer * Jordan Rountree * Constanze Victoria Thieleke

Opening | FR. November 21, 2025 | 7 pm
Welcome by Steffen Peter

8 pm | "CHTHONIC ARCHIVE No.7: Extremities" - a pop noh dance-drama
live gestural acting performance + radio art by Jordan Rountree

November 22 - December 21, 2025
Tuesday - Sunday | 1 - 7 pm
+ full program on all 4 Advent weekends!

REFORMATOR
Kurfürstenstraße 37
40211 Düsseldorf

"Of Mighty Winds and Downy Flakes" is dedicated to winter - as a natural phenomenon and climatic condition, as a dark season, as a cultural image. It appears in the exhibition in many different forms: as a "phantasm" that has been - and continues to be - repeatedly renegotiated in myths, customs and artistic debates over the centuries.

How can art today create spaces in which these aspects are negotiated beyond romantic transfiguration or escapism? In the rooms of Reformator, visitors encounter a field of tension between tradition and the present, between natural metaphors and material reality.

Although the participating artists come from very different regions - from the Alps to eastern Germany, Finland and Tatarstan to the USA - they are united by a common experience: the seasons with their recurring moods, customs and rituals. In all these geographical areas, forms of cultural memory have developed over the eras, which the artists want to question from today's perspective as part of the exhibition.

🔥 We look forward to seeing you!

Supported by:
Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building, KreativRaumD and the state capital Düsseldorf