RELIQUIEN DER SCHWARZDENKER

Vernissage | 18. Oktober 2013 | 19.30

Solo exhibition | Svenja Ritter (DE) | RELICS OF THE BLACK
THINKERS

Opening | Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume, Hamburger Bahnhof,
Museum of Contemporary

We present Svenja Ritter, who studied at the HBK
Saarbrücken, co-curator of the Afghan Pavilion 51 at the
Venice Biennale, in a further solo exhibition with her current
installation RELIQUIEN DER SCHWARZDENKER (RELICS OF
THE BLACK THINKERS). 'A melancholic head is the bath house
of the devil´ said a common idiom in the Middle Ages. In her
installation RELIQUIEN DER SCHWARZDENKER, Ritter
addresses this melancholy and questions, among other things,
whether public perception has really changed fundamentally
over time. Melancholy, an illness that you shouldn’t have, and
the disclosure of which still imputes the sufferer with character
weaknesses, instability, an inability to cope. By means of
painting and object art, the artist has created a walk-in head
of a black thinker, whereby, in this case, Ritter chose means
that do not allow for reflection of reality. GALERIE PETRA
NOSTHEIDE-EŸCKE is pleased to present new paintings and
sculptures by Svenja Ritter.