“Stratifications” as part of the Month of Photography Off with ‘vastus’ by Thilo Seibt
AKEBI e.V.
21.03.2025 – 06.04.2025
Böckhstr. 24, 10967 Berlin
opening time::
Friday 16:00 – 20:00
Saturday, Sunday 14:00 – 18:00
Stratifications
Borders, conflicts and the various forms of alienation in our lives always require more than one part. Political borders separate the identity constructs of nations that are spatially connected. As a result, we hardly ever fight alone and violence against the “own” is less common than that directed against the “foreign”. Alienation is thus something that is always dependent on the outside and in relation to the past. Double exposures, abstract perspectives and dialogues between light and shadow pick up on this dialectical quality of separation.
Visitors to the exhibition should be able to visually experience the overlapping and simultaneity of contradictions, dividing discs and conflicts. The exhibition aims to encourage reflection on the fact that everything “that stands between us” harbours the potential for a solution – be it by changing the variables or by accepting the status quo.
participating artist::
Ulrike Altekruse, Iren Böhme, Karl Förster, Magnus Hagdorn, Türkan Kentel, Peter Krabbe, Gabriel F. Nox, Stefan Postius, Daniel Schrödl, Thilo Seibt
Layer after layer was removed in strata. In the Lusatian mining district, 135 settlements were devastated. A total of 27,500 people lost their homes and farms here. Many of them worked in the mining district. They fulfilled plans and reliably delivered the lignite to the power stations for the energy supply, even under adverse conditions.
In just fifty years, this vulnerable Sorbian landscape was transformed into a deeply scarred region. Lignite, which had previously been declared unprofitable, was needed. The better Silesian hard coal was mined in another country after the war and converted into electricity. Today, other energy sources are to be developed.
Today, with a few exceptions, only a lake landscape with green slag heaps and new villages and neighbourhoods are reminders of the redeployment. However, the old tales of heroism from the mining district, as well as the hardships and injuries, remain in the stories of the families.
No stone was left unturned.
