Through the lens of 1980s conceptual practices in Odesa, curator and researcher Natalia Revko explores the city’s specific topography, focusing on the coastline as a place of doubling and mirroring. Artist Kandis Friesen resumes production of a series of Soviet-era Ukrainian concrete planters, set amidst an assemblage of German landscape paintings that form a transposed skyline of the Tajik city of Dushanbe.

In Her left year is shorter than her right, Friesen and Revko work with grafted, repetitive compositions and forms of transmission, articulating states of exile and displacement. The cities of Odesa, Dushanbe, and Berlin act as coordinates for these shifted geographies, making Galerie im Turm into a site specific to the works.

The exhibition is part of In Ruins, a cross-district collaboration between Galerie im Turm and Klosterruine in Mitte.

Curated by Helen-Sophie Mayr, Linnéa Meiners & Christopher Weickenmeier