The Memory of Things – Body, Movement and Remembrance in Art

Artist Talk with artist Simon Wachsmuth and art historian and sinologist Nora Wölfing during Berlin Art Week

As part of the exhibition The Back of the Treasure (curated by Jiaxing Chao), the gallery invites you to a dialogue between the artist Simon Wachsmuth and the art historian and sinologist Nora Wölfing. Based on Wachsmuth’s video work Qing, questions of memories and history as well as the role of objects as carriers of family narratives will be discussed.

Together they will talk about how personal family histories are made artistically visible and what resonance spaces are created between individual experience and collective memory. Special attention will be paid to dance and the body as a repository of memories: How can movement embody history? How can objects be brought to life and narrated through dance and the body? The discussion will provide insights into a work that poetically interweaves past, present and physicality.

Simon Wachsmuth is an artist and deals with history. He works with a variety of media, including film, installation and performance. His works are reminiscent of the passing of time and the creation of history.

Nora Wölfing is an art historian and sinologist, researches at the FU Berlin and the Ruhr University Bochum, writes for art magazines and specializes in media art from the Sinophone region.

The event will be held in German.