Warm invitation to

old stone hold my soul
when I am not in this place, face the sunrise for me
Auszug aus To Gahheya Ursula K. Le Guin (Always coming home, 1985)

The first quarter of the 21st century is almost over.
Crises, wars, and climate collapse are surrounding us. And make us feeling powerless.
How do we see our time and our future?

Marie Salcedo Horn is 30 years old and is wondering how people who are
10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, or 90 years old think about time and our future.

Stones provide a point of reference for this.
They were here long before us and will survive us who are alive today.

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Below

We cordially invite you to the closing reception of the exhibition
on August 1, 2025 on 7 pm with a lecture of Silja Lenz.

To the end of the exhibition Below, Silja Lenz invites you to a lecture that continues the poetic and mythical moment of her work. She will read the story “Die, die nie ganz auftaucht” (the one who never fully emerges), a literary dive into the deep sea, to a creature between myth and memory.

Below
by Silja Lenz 
Opening on Friday, Juli 11, 2025
at 5:45 pm for children
(in cooperation with the Youth Art School Stuttgart)
at 7 pm for everyone.

A soft body, fired in clay. Fragmentary, torn from movement, broken into pieces. What otherwise eludes the gaze now lies open before us – rigid, tangible, and yet foreign. From the depths, people tell stories: of beings that no one has fully seen, of tentacles that embrace ships. Between fear and fascination, an image emerges that says more about us than about what lives down there.

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