About the exhibition
The exhibition ...to leave a space in which the din of war might die down brings together works of art concerned with the repercussions of war in Europe and elsewhere since 1945. The works deal with both continuities of violence and the new orders that emerged from the collapse caused by the war. The focus is on external and internal landscapes that defy any unambiguous representation. They are portrayed as testimonies to resistance, as places of refuge, as living archives, or as imaginary spaces for future things. Postwar landscapes carry the traces of past conflicts that evade “normalization” processes and continue to resonate in both social and ecological living environments.
The works portray multi-layered relationships between space, time, and memory beyond political norms. The multiple crises and wars of the global present demand that we take a critical look at the past and at how we deal with the histories of violence that have left their mark on Europe and the world since the end of World War II. The exhibition asks which experiences have remained excluded from the collective memory and which aspects have failed to be taken into account. But they also go one step further, construing the potential of memory as a an orientation for the future.