“Where I Live” explores the history of the institution through the villa built in 1922 for the Jewish textile manufacturer Herrmann Knobloch, where the Haus am Waldsee took its first steps just a few weeks after the end of World War II.
Image gallery
Haus am Waldsee
The language of the building, in which both victims and perpetrators of National Socialism lived, is understood not only as a framework but as material. Against, with, and from within it, the works in the exhibition reveal tensions between the private and the political. The violent events and social struggles of the past century resonate in the architecture, the property, its location, and its use. They tell of an attempt at bourgeois separation that clings to a supposed normality, even as everything outside the windows begins to crumble.
The international group exhibition unfolds around a large-scale work by Richard Venlet and brings together historical and new works by, among others, Nigin Beck, Rhea Dillon, Robert Haas, Hannah Höch, Alexandre Khondji, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Henry Koerner, Ayumi Paul, Yoora Park, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, Oskar Schlemmer, Renée Sintenis, Ian Waelder, and Frau von Zinowiew.
Curated by
Anna Gritz, Pia-Marie Remmers
