Archives & Orbits
26.04.2025 - 10.06.2025
Katja Davar, Flo Maak, Christoph Westermeier, Sonya Schönberger, Christa Näher
Bernhard knaus Fine Art
Both archives and orbits contain fragments of knowledge, history and the invisible forces that shape them. Just as a stone can be a simple object or something more profound, the artist's studio often documents personal archives that form a complex topography of lived experiences and material explorations. These are never fixed, but form a delicate dance in which information and interpretations follow elliptical paths through time. What distinguishes an archive from a simple hodgepodge is the deliberate act of selection, arrangement and preservation - the way we capture and map a constellation of things, ideas and forms before they fade away. An archive is often a place where meaning is continually reinterpreted, dynamic yet haunted by what it does not contain. Not only a record of the past, but also an instrument for the future.
This exhibition brings together five artistic positions that deal with the themes of order, preservation, memory and time in very different ways. In painting, sculpture and photography, this group exhibition shows that we are archivists and archives that move along eternal paths, organizing fragments of experiences, leaving conscious traces and erasing others
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