Sucht/Sehnsucht – eine performative Ausstellung

In the organizer's words:

Between desire and loss, projection and addiction: around 48 students from the scenography and costume specialization at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts present Sucht/Sehnsucht, a performative exhibition that transports the audience into an atmospherically dense labyrinth of spaces and figures. The performances will take place on Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27, 2025, both at 8 pm in the atrium of the Design Center, Expo Plaza 2 in Hanover.

A labyrinth of spaces and figures

The starting point of the project is a curated collection of texts that combines themes and motifs from literature and the present day: the longing for the strong man, the absent lover, echoes of Chekhov and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. This results in around eleven rooms and some twenty figures that the audience can experience freely and associatively rather than linearly.

The exhibition does not follow a narrative. Figures appear, meet and disappear again - a game of proximity and distance, desire and withdrawal. Texts are translated into space, image and body and transformed into vivid situations. The artistic work is deliberately open, experimental and process-oriented.

Collaborative project with external partners

The semester project will be accompanied by director and actor Janko Kahle and acting students from the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH). The workshops at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts are also providing support. The realization is completely collaborative: all participants are actively involved in the overall process.

Sustainable production in the theater

A special aspect of the project is its sustainability approach: a recycled stage set from the Hanover Opera House is used for the scenographic realization and artistically reinterpreted. This creates a completely new experiential space from existing material - as a practical contribution to resource-conserving and circular production methods in the field of performing arts.