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Finissage: Geng Xue und Runa Ikeda

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FINISSAGE
Sunday 15 Dec 2024, 3 pm – 5 pm

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
(WORLD CHANGERS N°4 & N°5)
Geng Xue & Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event image: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), Stop – Motion – Animation, Single-Channel video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

 

The year is coming to an end and with it the exhibition cycle TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN of the Kunstverein Göttingen. It was also an exciting year artistically with four solo exhibitions and a central group exhibition, all of which explored the phenomenon of contemporary surrealism and magical realism from many parts of the world.
The Finissage of “Oneiroi” is definitely the last opportunity to visit the Old Town Hall once again, to review the editions and exhibitions of the year and to take in the extraordinary works of this Asian double constellation of Geng Xue from China and Runa Ikeda from Japan. We are looking forward to having a well-deserved winter break with you. Cordially, your team from the Kunstverein Göttingen.

Sun 12.12.24, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Finissage Oneiroi

– 3:00 pm Guided tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: final conclusion
From 3:00 to 5:00 pm the Kunstverein team will be on site with the artists. There will be drinks, snacks, and all editions of the year.

 

 

 

The 2024/2025 TERRA DIASPORA programme at the Kunstverein Göttingen is being developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The final presentation of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations by the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique dreamlike expressiveness. In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). This many-headed family of subconscious phantasms will accompany and permeate the 2024 finale.

 

DIE EDITION ZUR AUSSTELLUNG

 

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024

Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

 

We would like to thank the Department of Culture of the City of Göttingen for the close and trusting cooperation at the Altes Rathaus Göttingen.

We also would like to express our deep gratefulness towards our generous sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

 

The Long Afternoon of Art: Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda

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The Long Afternoon of Art
Saturday 14 Dec 2024 at 3 pm

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event image: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), Stop – Motion – Animation, Single-Channel video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

The year is drawing to a close and with it the exhibition cycle TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN of the Kunstverein Göttingen. It was an exciting year, also artistically with four solo exhibitions and a central group exhibition, all of which explored the phenomenon of contemporary surrealism and magical realism from many parts of the world.
It is therefore our special pleasure to be able to invite everyone to the long afternoon of art on Saturday 14 December to round off the year. We want to review the exhibition year together and delve deeper into the current exhibition with the artist Runa Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee. The brand new performance by the iYi collective will be premiered and in the evening we will listen to contemporary Japanese sound art. You can also actively support the KVG by purchasing an edition for the festival. In between, there will be plenty of time for viewing, strolling, and personal dialogue. Coming and going is also entirely up to you.

Sat 14.12.24, 3 – 7 pm
The Long Afternoon of Art: Oneiroi

– 11 am: The exhibition opens due to regular opening times
–  3 pm: Guided Tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
–  4 pm: World premiere of the performance by the Art Trio iYi: Ancestral Eavesdropping
–  6 pm: Sound Art by Shinichiro Ikeda


The Kunstverein team will be on site with the artists from 3 pm to 7 pm. There will be drinks, snacks, and all the editions of the year 2024.

 

The performance trio iYi consists of the visual artist Runa Ikeda with the composer Shinichiro Ikeda from Japan, and the contemporary dancer Frida Yngvesson, born in South Korea with an Icelandic passport. Together they will premiere the performance piece ‘Ancestral Eavesdropping’, their latest production on the Long Afternoon of Art in Göttingen’s Old Town Hall, which will also be premiered as part of the exhibition Oneiroi in the Old Town Hall on 14 December.

Ancestral eavesdropping is the new work by the interdisciplinary performance collective. It is a performance and installation that aims to reconnect the audience with the lost sounds and practices of their pasts. The three artists of iYi – all originally from Japan and South Korea – left their home countries at different points in their lives. With this performance, they reflect on their shared experiences of migration and cultural memory. The piece poses the hypothetical question: ‘What could we hear if we could listen to our ancestors?’
The performance takes place within the installation created by Runa Ikeda and changes its appearance. After the performance, the installation will have evolved into a significantly different form – a visual expression of the passage of time. The performance refers to old rituals and practices. The work cleanses the space, honours the past and at the same time creates space for transformation. Sounds and field recordings were collected from places of personal significance such as Tokyo, Okinawa, and Ishikawa, and form the basis of the soundscape throughout the performance.

Statement
“We are interested in how sound, movement, and different forms of the visual can merge and form holistic experiences in physical installations or live performances. Our practice is based on direct composition, improvisation, and embodiment.
As a collective, we explore themes such as dreams, rituals, fantasy, uncanniness, and juxtapositions. Our work is often shown in unconventional locations such as outdoor spaces, libraries, and bars. This is and has always been one of the main inspirations for us, on how to bring the performance to a different audience in unexpected places and circumstances.”

 

 

The 2024/2025 TERRA DIASPORA programme at the Kunstverein Göttingen is being developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The final presentation of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations by the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique dreamlike expressiveness. In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). This many-headed family of subconscious phantasms will accompany and permeate the 2024 finale.

 

THE EDITION OF THE EXHIBITION


Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024

Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

 

We would like to thank the Department of Culture of the City of Göttingen for the close and trusting cooperation at the Altes Rathaus Göttingen.

We also would like to express our deep gratefulness towards our generous sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

 

Vernissage Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda

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VERNISSAGE
Sunday, 20 October 2024 at 11:30 am

WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue & Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event image: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), stop–motion video, Single-Kanal video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

You are cordially invited to the Vernissage on Sunday, 20 October 11:30 am – 2:00 pm in the Old Town Hall Göttingen, 2nd floor. After a tonal introduction with the sound art of Shinichiro Ikeda, Helmut Wenzel, and Stephan Klee will briefly welcome the guests and introduce the exhibition. At 13:00 there will then be the Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue’s 海公⼦  – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023. We are also presenting the new edition of the exhibition. The artist couple Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee will be present. The exhibition rooms will remain open until 17:00, so there will be enough time to view the works at your leisure.

Sun 20.10.24, 11:30 am – 2:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception
– 11:45 am: Sound Art Pieces by Shinichiro Ikeda
– 12:00 pm: Welcome speeches by Helmut Wenzel and Stephan Klee
– 01:00 pm: Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue Mr Sea – 海公⼦
Presentation of the new edition of Geng Xue. The artist Runa Ikeda, the sound artist Shinichiro Ikeda, and the curator Stephan Klee will be present.
– 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm: The exhibition is regularly open.

 

 

 

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Beginning with narratives from the past – such as classics from the Qing dynasty, Buddhist cosmology or Taoist teachings – and arriving at severed body parts and porcelain dolls, the creations of multimedia artist Geng Xue offer uncanny and interwoven retellings of various traditional strands of Chinese cultural history. Working primarily with porcelain, Geng Xue explores the fragile yet enduring nature of the ceramic medium, which metaphorically represents the duality of man and the physical world.

Runa Ikeda specializes in painting and drawing, but also creates sculptures from clay and performs with musicians and contemporary dancers. For her, art is the best self-expression and the valid truth in her life. She studied illustration at the Tokyo Design Academy, where she graduated in 2010. During her studies, she also began to express herself through painting.

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The 2024/2025 TERRA DIASPORA programme is being developed by curator Stephan Klee together with the participating artists. The final presentation of the TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations by the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique dreamlike expressiveness. In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). This many-headed family of subconscious phantasms will accompany and permeate the 2024 finale.

 

THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

 

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Preis: 400 € / 300 € for Members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

 

We would like to thank the Department of Culture of the City of Göttingen for the close and trusting cooperation at Altes Rathaus.

We thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen

 

Exhibition Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda

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WELTEN WANDLERINNEN N°4 & N°5
Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda: Oneiroi

event images: Geng Xue 海公⼦ – Mr. Sea, 2014 – 2023 (still), stop–motion video, Single-Kanal video, 13’15” min, courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

In Greco-Roman mythology, the Oneiroi (dreams) are the many children of Nyx (night) and Hypnos (sleep). Led by the brothers Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasos, they are the mutable and many-headed family of dreams who create and direct the images of our sleep and imagination. In this role, they provide the appropriate title and theme for the final edition of our exhibition series WELTEN WANDELN on contemporary forms of magical realism and surrealism at the Kunstverein Göttingen.

This final presentation of the exhibition series in 2024 is dedicated entirely to the multimedia installations of the two artists Geng Xue and Runa Ikeda. In their individual groups of works, the artists from China and Japan both combine the aesthetics and narratives of their diverse home cultures with personal content in a unique, somnambulistic expressiveness. Geng Xue’s works are dominated by the finest porcelain sculptures, while Runa Ikeda’s are colourful paintings on large fabric banners. In this way, both artists create an inspiring, artistic world between reality, dream and narrative. The finale in the exhibition rooms of the Altes Rathaus Göttingen brings the two artists’ world drafts together in the rooms for the first time worldwide, reveals new references and expands the fantastic potential of their works.

Runa Ikeda was born in Japan in 1988 and graduated from the Tokyo Academy of Design’s Illustration masterclass in 2010. The unique world of her paintings, sculptures and performances quickly attracted attention in the art world in Japan and Germany, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and organised 5 solo exhibitions in galleries in Tokyo and Berlin. She is the winner of the Scott Hall Gallery Award and the Creative Award in Tokyo, Japan. In 2012, she also received the Special Award at the Germany Art Festival in Berlin. Runa Ikeda lives with her husband Shinichiro Ikeda in Berlin. Together they also run their studio there, where sound art, visual art, and performance are created in mutual enrichment.

Geng Xue graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing (2007) and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe (2013) before receiving her MFA from CAFA (2014). Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including the Sydney Biennale (2018), the Venice Biennale (2017) and the Busan Biennale (2014). In 2017, Geng Xue was shortlisted for Young Artist of the Year at the Award of Art China (AAC). The artist currently lives and works in Beijing and teaches sculpture at CAFA.

 

Programme

Sun 20.10.24, 11:30 am  – 2:00 pm
Vernissage – Reception with
– 11:45 am: Sound art pieces by Shinichiro Ikeda
– 12:00 pm: Welcome speeches by Helmut Wenzel and Stephan Klee
–    1:00 pm: Göttingen film premiere of Geng Xue Mr Sea
Presentation of the new edition of Geng Xue . The artist Runa Ikeda will be present.

Sun 03.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sun 10.11.24, 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Sunday guided tour with Justus M. Müller

at 14.12.24, 3:00 – 7:00
The Long Afternoon of Art with
– 3:00 pm: Curator’s tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Performance by the art trio IYI
– 6:00 pm: Sound art by Shinichiro Ikeda
The artist couple Ikeda and the curator Stephan Klee will be on site

 

Sun 15.12.24, 15:00 – 19:00
Finissage
– 3:00 pm: Guided tour through the exhibition with Runa Ikeda and Stephan Klee
– 4:00 pm: Conclusion

Please book your participation in the Sunday tours at info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or klee@kunstvereingoettingen.de or by telephone at 0551-44899

 

 

 

THE EDITION OF THE SHOW

 

 

Geng Xue
看不见的冰湖
Invisible Ice Lake, 2024
Edition 15 + 3 AP
H 27 cm x W 40 cm
Archival inkjet pigment print
(Fine Art Long Duration Inkjet Print) on
HAHNEMÜHLE Museum Etching, rough matt
natural white, acid-free, 100% cotton, 350 gsm

courtesy the artist and gallery Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
Price: 400 € / 300 € for members of KV Göttingen

> If you are interested, please contact us here: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

 

The Annual Programme 2024
TERRA DIASPORA – CHANGING WORLDS

TERRA DIASPORA is the leitmotif of the Kunstverein Göttingen 2024–2025. In the face of fundamental upheavals in the coexistence of nature and mankind, TERRA DIASPORA stands for a world on the move; for a terrain that is becoming increasingly alien to its inhabitants, and for an earth on which people are becoming foreign bodies. It is an earth in a foreign territory, a terra diaspora.
The first part of the 2024 programme series is called TERRA DIASPORA – WELTEN WANDELN and shows artists, who create new worlds between rational reality, dream, and fantasy. Dubious of a purely functional picture of reality and often affected by family experiences of migration, the exhibited artists connect the accustomed with the new, combine facts with the fantastic and create their own identities out of old stories and new experiences. Worlds are made visible which stem from our roots and emerge when we wander the earth. The 2024-2025 annual programme, developed by curator Stephan Klee and the participating artists, will be overseen by him over the next two years.

The finale of our fantastic series features two Asian artists: Runa Ikeda from Japan and Geng Xue from China. With literally overflowing creative energy, they realise their equally precious and finely branched world drafts from the rich pool of their respective home cultures, the traces of their dreams and free fantasies. Now, for the first time, these two artistic realms grow together, an expansive realm of pictorial dreams emerges from both the edifying and the enchanted.

We would like to thank our sponsors: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Niedersächsische Sparkassen Stiftung, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. and Sparkasse Göttingen

 

Finissage: TERRA DIASPORA

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Finissage

TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln – Changing Worlds
Ellen Akimoto, Cian Dayrit, Marianna Ignataki, Runa Ikeda, Oda Jaune, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Thorsten Alexander Kasper, Rosa Loy, Kelechi Nwaneri, So Young Park, Thomias Radin, Dennis Scholl, Sara Umar, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Geng Xue

curated by Nicola E. Petek & Stephan Klee

The current works by artists with roots in five continents are dedicated to the emergence of the fantastic in the everyday experience of a supposedly rationally explainable environment: Does the fantastic fundamentally question our modern view of the world? Or is and has the fantastic always been an essential component of human perception and reality? The art movements of Surrealism and Magical Realism already dealt with this tense relationship; the contemporary positions gathered in the exhibition take up these questions again, revitalising and further developing key art movements of modernism.
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The team of the Kunstverein invites you to the joint closing of the international group exhibition on Friday, 12.07.24, 18:00 – 20:00.

There will be a final guided tour of the exhibition with Stephan Klee at 18:00 and then the last opportunity to ask questions and reflect together on aspects of the exhibition. We are looking forward to a relaxed, informal evening with a drink or two and look forward to seeing you there.

Please register in advance at: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or +49 (0) 551 – 44 8 99

 

Runa Ikeda The Shadow of the Living Light – 生ける光の影 / Edition, 2024

 

Für alle Freunde von phantastischer figurativer Kunst hat der Kunstverein Göttingen eine exquisite Edition aufgelegt:
Runa Ikeda The shadow of the living light – 生ける光の影 / Edition, 2024, alterungsbeständiger Digitaler FINE ART – Pigmentdruck auf HAHNEMÜHLE Bamboo, rauh-matt 280g/m², Auflage 15 / 3 AP, Preis: 320 € / 240 € für Mitglieder des KV Göttingen

Als Dank für eine wichtige Spende zum Programm holen Sie sich nicht nur eine wunderbare Arbeit in Ihre Privaträume, sondern Sie unterstützen auch die Arbeit des Kunstvereins Göttingen für zeitgenössische junge Kunst und die beteiligten Kunstschaffenden.   >> Bei Interesse kontaktieren Sie uns bitte hier: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de

 

Wir danken unseren Förderern: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen.

Art meets Literature

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Reading and panel discussion as part of the exhibition TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln
Art meets literature: the novel Uprooted by Indian author Alka Saraogi

Monday, 01.07.24 at 19:00 – 21:00

Reading and discussion with the author, the translator Prof. Dr. Almuth Degener, University of Mainz, and the co-curator of the exhibition Nicola E. Petek;
Moderation: Dr. Ines Fornell, Seminar for Indology and Tibetology at the University of Göttingen;
in cooperation with the Literaturforum Indien e. V.

This new novel of contemporary Indian literature, which has just been published in a direct German translation, deals literarily with the theme of the exhibition TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln: in the world of East and West Bengal, characterized by pogroms against people of other faiths after the partition of the subcontinent at the end of British colonial rule over India, the story of Kulbhushan unfolds, who, as a refugee between home and new beginnings, remains an uprooted person and at the same time shows unexpected strengths. The author’s poetic language allows us to experience this story in all its contradictions in an emotionally moving way.

The exhibition can of course be viewed both before and after the reading event; the co-curator Nicola Petek will be available from 18:30 to 19:00 and from around 21:00 to 21:30 to answer questions and talk about the works on display in the exhibition.

We will be happy to receive your pre-registration at: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or +49 (0) 551 – 44 8 99

 

Alka Saraogi “Entwurzelt”, Roman-Cover

 

TERRA DIASPORA – “Welten Wandeln”, Sara Umar Ausstellungsansicht

 

Wir danken unseren Förderern: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen.

Panel Talk: TERRA DIASPORA

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Panel Talk
TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln

Saturday, 15.06.24 at 17:00 – 19:00
5:00 – 5:45 pm: Guided tour through the exhibition Welten Wandeln with the curator Stephan Klee
6:00 – 7:00 pm: Panel discussion with the artist Marianna Ignataki, the artist Thomias Radin and curator Stephan Klee, moderated by Dr. phil Almut Hüfler

 

Topic

Migration as a source of the fantastic –
New narratives between cultures and the new border regimes

After a guided tour through the exhibition TERRA DIASPORA – Welten Wandeln with the responsible co-curator Stephan Klee and a short break for drinks participants in the exhibition will meet to talk about the influences in their artistic narratives, be it the culture of their countries of origin, experiences during their migration or the inspirations in their new living environment.

Together with Stephan Klee, they will also discuss the limits of the universal idea of human rights in the current global refugee dynamics. Are there connections between the failure of rational, humane politics and the new emergence of „subreal“ narratives and fantastic drafts of the world?

The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Phil. Almut Hüfler from Berlin.
She is a curator, Literature Scientist and is familiar with the positions and the thematic complex, due to an ongoing collaboration with the involved protagonists and actual contention with the topics.

Please register in advance at: info@kunstvereingoettingen.de or +49 (0) 551 – 44 8 99

 

TERRA DIASPORA – “Welten Wandeln” , exhibtion view Marianna Ignataki

 

TERRA DIASPORA – “Welten Wandeln”, exhibition view Thomias Radin

 

Wir danken unseren Förderern: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stadt Göttingen, Landschaftsverband Südniedersachsen e.V. und Sparkasse Göttingen.