with Belia Zanna Geetha Brückner, Isabelle Heske, Leonie Kellein, Jeanna Kolesova, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Mizi Lee, Marei Loellmann, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Laura Nitsch, Eglė Otto, Evelina Reiter, Noor us Sabah Saeed, Dior Thiam, Cora Wöllenstein, Sofiia Yesakova

I only work with lost and found, which brings together recent works by the 15 artists participating in this year’s Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt. Despite their diversity, these works are united by themes evoked in the exhibition’s title: cyclical processes of artistic work and examinations of aesthetic, narrative, historical, and political ruptures and continuities.

Lost and found refers to the actions of unlearning and losing to what is hidden or repressed, and at the same time, hints at a wide range of possibilities for rediscovering, intervening, and reassembling. At the heart of many artworks on display is an engagement with found materials. The inherent qualities and histories of these materials offer opportunities to identify and rediscover buried knowledge, to critically examine memory and to imagine the future, or even to develop activist strategies within and beyond the field of art.

The exhibition includes painting, photography, multimedia installations, process-based experimental arrangements, performances, research-based assemblages, and sculptures. Many works combine genres to defy categorization and are based on a cumulative, sustainable, exploratory approach to nature, sources, and material.

The Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt aims to increase visibility for women's artistic positions. Founded in 1989, the program’s one-year training course supports women visual artists in acquiring professional know-how and presenting their work to the public.

Curated by Mona Hermann and Hannah Kruse