The group exhibition „This is the place you told me about“ brought together eight artistic practices that addressed the theme of fragility as a material and immaterial phenomenon. In multi-perspective and multi-disciplinary ways they captured the moment when inside and outside meet, and visualized it in a reduced and gentle language.

The selected artworks told about shelters, thresholds, and in-between states. They marked physical boundaries on vulnerable objects, which, in an interplay between the abstract and the concrete, between the act of hiding and seeking, evoked an imaginary world of encounters.

Presented in a variety of disciplines—from drawing and painting to sculpture and installation—almost all the artworks could be seen as three-dimensional works that responded both physically and conceptually to their surroundings. The medium of photography and video was used primarily in a documentary sense, expanding and reflecting on the dichotomy of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’.

Even though all featured meticulously hand-crafted artworks differed in their variety of shapes and materials, they had a certain visual vocabulary and simplicity in common. Juxtaposed and placed in dialogue, they revealed an undeniable kinship to each other.

Curated by Cassandra Mehlhorn