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The Franco-Canadian artist duo Michelle Héon (*1948) and Gilles Morissette (*1955) are exhibiting  for the first time together in Berlin installation works made from handmade paper.




For their exhibition, which ZAK is showing as the second station after Kunstverein Leverkusen at Schloss Morsbroich, they have explored the themes of nature and landscape, or more precisely the island situation of both the moated castle of Morsbroich and the citadel of Spandau.


Their space-related narrative scenographies thematise places and paths, but in particular content-related, historical and associative connections that come together at a specific location and in turn emanate from it.


Michelle Héon’s installations place the viewer at the centre of a poetic and dramatic story. She develops abstract water maps from paper, textiles and projections. Although these do not provide spatial orientation, they are both sensual and contemporary when questions about environmental destruction and migration are raised.


In contrast, Gilles Morissette has developed light and colourful spatial situations for the new exhibition that are reminiscent of both vegetation and water. His ‘light’ spaces, assembled from countless pieces of paper, are artistic invitations to evoke one’s own memories of sensually experienced landscapes. His own childhood in the barren prairies of Canada forms the background for his sensitive observations of a domesticated and increasingly fragile environment.


  • Michelle Héon & Gilles Morissette
  • Group Exhibition
  • 19.06.2025 – 25.08.2025
  • ZAK Center for Contemporary Art, OG
  • Opening: Wednesday 18.06., 7 pm
Additional information
Price info: Every 1st Sunday of the month is Citadel Sunday and admission is free .

Price: €4.50

Reduced price: €2.50

Reduced price info: children from 6 to 14 years – students – trainees – persons receiving transfer benefits (ALG II, social assistance, benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act) – persons with severe disabilities from 50% MdE upon presentation of the corresponding ID.

Public Tours in the Citadel Spandau
every 1st Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. in English 
regular tours in German on Saturday and Sunday 
at 2 p.m.

per person 4,50 € for the Tour
Dates
June 2025
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