Participating artists:Video editing: Siska | Voices: Ewa Wasilewska, Johanna Hoth | Graphics: Stefania Smolkina | Performative activation by HGB students: Robin Becker, Tobias Fabek, Andolie Marguerite, Anna Volodina, Supervision: Anna Zett | INTIMATE BORDER(S) research group
Period (opening hours):Performative activation: Sat. 18.10. 15:00-17:00 & Fri. 24.10. 15:00-18:00, open: Tue.-Fri. 14:00-18:00, Sat. & Sun. 14:00-17:00, Sun. 25.10. 11:00-14:00
Venue:HGB galleryWächterstraße 11
04107 Leipzig
www.hgb-leipzig.de/galerieinstagram.com/hgbgalleryPartner:A cooperation of the hgb gallery, the performative arts class of the HGB and the 12th Festival Politics in Independent Theatre
The HGB gallery is showing the installation “Graniczanka“ on the everyday life and knowledge of border residents on the southern German-Polish Neisse border. On 18 and 24 October, the installation will be activated by students of the Performative Arts Class through participatory activities.
Areas where the borders of two nations meet are usually regarded as the peripheries of the respective states. The zone where two nation states meet creates a third space in which the border region itself is experienced and utilised differently. Graniczanka can be translated from Polish as "border dweller" and is interested in the unifying aspects that the everyday life of border dwellers can bring with it.
The installation in the HGB gallery shows the formal and informal architecture of the German/Polish Neisse border in the situation of the border controls reintroduced on both sides in the summer of 2025.
In addition, the installation “Graniczanka“ invites visitors to participate in the knowledge of the border residents. Four counselling stations provide information about bilingual educational institutions, body-related services, ecological care work and abortion counselling. How does everyday practice undermine political reality? Where does the political appear in the everyday? The concept of intimate borders examines how re-bordering processes within the Schengen area, (right-wing) extreme political currents and attacks on reproductive rights influence personal everyday practices of love, ecological care and body-related services.
The installation "Graniczanka" is based on the initial research results of the interdisciplinary research group "INTIMATE BORDER(S)", which has been conducting research on the German/Polish Neisse border since autumn 2024. Social scientists are working together with artists in an interdisciplinary setting. Qualitative research methods are combined with artistic practices.
INTIMATE BORDER(S) research group: Ewa Einhorn (artist/University of Gothenburg), Constanze Fischbeck (artist & scenographer/Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe), Elisabeth Militz (geographer/Universität Innsbruck), Carolin Schurr (geographer/University of Bern), Karolina Sobel (artist/Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe / HGB Leipzig), Mirko Winkel (artist & curator, mLAB, University of Bern)
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