Juliane Laitzsch - Galloping over water

The exhibition venue serves as a thematic source. Her focus is on marginal details of the building's history. She is just as interested in applications for the installation of advertising boards as she is in the numerous proposals for naming the Gothic House. She copies the report on the building research of the house, details from architectural plans or the photo of a drawing of the vaulted room from around 1900, which was probably made in the 1940s after a postcard that is now lost. Between these layers of media and temporality, between original and image, Juliane Laitzsch artistically seeks proximity to the people whose traces she follows.


The drawing serves her as a medium of deceleration and approximation. As a metaphor for the fact that our knowledge of history - our past - remains fragmentary and uncertain, she takes up a drawing from Villard de Honnecourt's Gothic building book - a horse galloping over water. The graphic works are complemented by sculptures that correspond with the current architecture of the rooms.


Juliane Laitzsch's work focuses on change and transformation - the flow of time, against the backdrop that we all fall off our horses at some point.