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It tells the story of Felix, who lives in exile in Paris, and Nandi, a surveyor. The two come from different cultures, but merge with each other just as much as their memories of their common homeland, its eventful history and its inscriptions in the landscape.

The graphic gesture as a narrative form finds its echo in the large-format paintings of the cycle “Die Krähe” (2011) by Johannes Heisig. They are based on poems by the British writer Ted Hughes and bear witness to the struggle with guilt and despair, also with loneliness and togetherness, and pose the question of the meaning of human existence.

Verschiedene Schichtungs- und Bearbeitungstechniken

Various layering and processing techniques characterise Sabine Herrmann's gestural paintings, which are permeated by hints of graphic fragments. Figurative constellations, designed more as shadows than as bodies in large-format pictorial spaces, reflect the delicate relationship between individual identity (Identita), imaginative space and the field of tension between inner and outer realities.

Klaus Killisch's portraits of nameless, faceless and timeless smokers, who seem to float schematically and colour-reduced in diffuse-monochrome pictorial spaces, function as silent witnesses or observers.

Die Ausstellung

The exhibition is a collaboration between Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst (BLMK), Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Stiftung Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau as part of the Lausitz Festival 2025.