Period (opening hours):Wednesday-Friday 2pm-6pm, Saturday 12pm-4pm
Venue:K-Strich
Alexanderstraße 9b
28203 Bremen
Fear of the Agenda is dedicated to the ongoing right-wing violence in reunified Germany and to people who show solidarity and work tirelessly on behalf of its victims.
Specifically, the exhibition commemorates Marwa El-Sherbini, who was threatened by a right-wing extremist in Dresden and took her case to court there in July 2009. The court ruled in her favour, but underestimated the danger in the courtroom.
The defendant was able to kill El-Sherbini after the hearing and seriously injure her husband; a police officer who rushed to the scene mistook him for the perpetrator and shot him in the leg.
The artists thematise the failure of the state and the shifting of responsibility and reappraisal.
Susanne Keichel has been documenting the annual memorial ceremonies as a Dresden witness to El-Sherbini in a long-term photographic observation since 2010. The backdrop for this memorial theatre full of staged gestures and rituals is Dresden - the rebuilt city of art.
Noa Gur has developed a choreographic video work in which she uses file information to stage and physically re-enact the crime. Her performative approach is not a mere re-enactment, but a resistant, fragmentary remembrance. She also shows an archive of newspaper articles from Western media, which depict the events as a spectacle of contrasts and contribute to the fact that right-wing acts of violence are still underestimated as isolated incidents today.
A programme of events will bring together people from other memory struggles from theory and local practice; information will follow.
Curated by Linda Valerie Ewert
Assistance: Charlotte Uekermann
