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Performance "The Lips the Teeth the Tip of the Tongue"

by Paulette Penje and Olga Hohmann

New Date! (the previous one unfortunately had to be canceled due to illness.)

In The Roof of the Mouth, Paulette Penje combines body, space, and temporality in a multi-layered manner.
Penje transfers the pinkish color of her palate to the insides of the eight vaulted arches of the Galerie im Körnerpark. The architecture becomes an open mouth. For Penje, space not only has an architectural dimension, but is created by the events that take place within it—temporal, alive, almost human-like. The installation is animated during the exhibition through a performance by Paulette Penje and Olga Hohmann.

In multi-faceted performances in indoor and public (outdoor) spaces, Penje works with methods from painting, action art, and dance. Humor, melancholy, misappropriation, imagination, and her own body are her materials. Penje’s works play with rules, loops, and an ambivalent presence between action and state.

The image shows an interior view of a mouth looking up at the roof of the mouth with the entire row of teeth.
© Paulette Penje
Participating artists
  • Olga Hohmann
  • Paulette Penje