Bridging Histories: Künstlerische Begegnungen in der Kunsthalle Mainz
In a time when the bridges once built by art seem to crumble, curator and researcher Malina Lauterbach stepped right across one – from Mainz all the way to Lubumbashi. Her review of the exhibition 𝘜𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦: 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘺 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘫𝘪 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 at Kunsthalle Mainz wanders through the works of artists from the art centre Picha, situated in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Beyond the echoes of Kasala poetry invoking the anti-colonial struggles of miners, the secret engravings of a French horn muted by museum glass or the tale of a fish travelling through generations of history – Lauterbach locates the potential for resistance within the exchanges, frictions and even dissonances that bind the project. [Review in German]