Group exhibition for this year’s theme “Sehnsucht" (Longing). With Hannah Becher, Thomas Behling, Ina Bierstedt, Ulrike Dornis, Bartbara Duisberg, Ellinor Euler, Claudia Grande, ,Ulli Grötz, Stephan Groß, Ulrike Hannemann. Stefanie Hillich, Janne Höltermann, Andrea Huyoff, Lisa Junghanss, Steffi Jüngling, Sabine Kinast, Hannah Lansburgh , Anett Lau, Laura Leppert, Oliver Möst, Isabell Pauer, Franziska Peter, Mari Poller, Beate Selzer, Kerstin Serz, Eva Stenram, Maria Vedder, Mara Wagenführ, Ivo Weber, Catrin Welcher, Marcelina Wellmer, Daniel Wiesenfeld.

The project space SCOTTY offers artists and curators an open platform for exhibitions, alternative formats of art education and interdisciplinary projects. The project space operates independently of the market, is self-determined and free of hierarchies. The content of SCOTTY’s work is based on annual themes / focal points that are defined for a period of one to one and a half years.

About the year’s theme: Longing is flourishing once again and is expressed today in a wide variety of forms: in love of nature, the escape from everyday life, the longing for social contacts, for normality, for remote places or for a home. It even finds expression in conspiracy theories or in the idea of salvation via right-wing extremism.

The concept of longing as an image morphs the illusive into an individual, and at times, a collective projection.
Motifs such as the romantic landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, a sandy beach with palm trees in the sunset, the idyllic scenery of the Alps or the bourgeois paradise of one’s own garden have become codes for feelings and places of longing for the neo-romantic observer over the centuries. Do these images still resonate today?
Longings as subjective, elusive and yet powerful inner forces seem to emerge outside of the realm of rationality, pragmatic compromise and reason. And yet longings raise essential questions about meaning and substance, long-term self-fulfilling life choices and mindful moral action. Can longing be seen as an intuitive impulse for integrity and self-empowerment? As something worth listening to, because it contains relevant information about the direction to be followed? How can we distil and implement the utopian potential from our primal desires? And how can we place trust in longings as we would in a seismograph, and to what extent can we justify a reliance on a kind of inner nature or compass while doing so?

In this exhibition cycle, we follow various artistic, cultural and social-political aspects of Longing – SEHNSUCHT:
How can the imaginary be made visible? Which artist mythologies are accompanied by corresponding social expectations, self-images and realities of life? Longing as the pure, adventurous desire to discover the vastness of the world for yourself? Radical artistic and social positions that are not overburdened by compromise? How can we live in omnipresent capitalism and practice solidarity and real community?