Period (opening hours):Saturday-Sunday, 3-7 pm and by appointment
Venue:D21 Kunstraum
Demmeringstraße 21
04177 Leipzig
The solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Juliane Jaschnow (*1989) entitled Anstiftung zur Vorspiegelung wahrer Tatsachen addresses the power of visual narratives and the instrumentalisation of images and collective memory in the confrontation with contemporary Russia. In this context, the exhibition shows elements of the existing works Recapitulate (2019-2021) and With Friendly Applause (2023/2024) together with the newly developed installation Inciting the Pretence of True Facts (2025).
In her audiovisual installations, Juliane Jaschnow explores media narrative patterns with which Russia stages its role in the world and justifies its political actions. In doing so, she encounters principles of (re)construction and (re)staging, distorted images, copies, backdrops and the transfer of historical symbols into contemporary contexts.
The artist dissects these principles by materialising pictorial objects, discursively shifting media contributions and their ideological charge and condensing them into expansive installations. At the centre of the work Recapitulate is a replica of the Berlin Reichstag erected by the Russian Ministry of Defence in the military patriotic leisure park Park Patriot near Moscow. In spring 2017, hundreds of extras reconstructed the iconic key scene of the Russian war commemoration - the storming of the Reichstag in May 1945 and the raising of the Soviet flag on the building. This re-enactment forms the starting point for Juliane Jaschnow's examination of the German-Russian culture of remembrance. The work, which includes a video installation, objects and print elements, focuses on collective images of history and memory, their identity-forming role and the importance of patriotic education.
The multi-part work "mit freundlichem Beifall" deals with the continuities of Russian propaganda productions and the mechanisms of disinformation and deception. It examines media spaces, forms and backgrounds of the representation of power - such as the newly designed curtains in the Kremlin's Representation Hall, where foreign state guests are received for television, among other things. At the same time, she looks back at a newspaper report from 1993 in which Putin advocates a "military dictatorship modelled on Chile" for Russia.
In her new work, Incitement to the Pretence of True Facts, Juliane Jaschnow examines the progressive sacralisation of Russian state power. For example, she examines the role of the Orthodox faith and shamanism in the ideological legitimisation of the "special military operation" in Ukraine - and its embedding in a religious-nationalist narrative of sacrifice and heroism for Russia. She also looks at supernatural practices that are used as individual coping strategies in times of collective insecurity and warlike reality. Juliane Jaschnow's research processes a large volume of visual material from the Russian media into a multi-part installation consisting of props, mirror objects, teleprompters and videos. In a specially constructed mirror cabinet of optical illusions - a photo-multigraph - she negotiates the concepts of truth, lies, deception and illusion.
Supporting programme:
29.09.2025
5 pm
D21/Discourse
As part of the exhibition, we invite you to exchange and discuss reference texts. Please register at office@d21-leipzig. The texts will be sent after registration.
3.-5.10.2025
Lindenow Festival
Lindenow#19 - Festival of independent art spaces in the west of Leipzig
Changed opening hours: 3.10.2025: 6 pm - 2 pm, 4.10.2025: 3 pm - 2 pm, 5.10.2025: 3 pm - 8 pm
02.11.2025
5 pm
Screening film trilogy by Juliane Jaschnow & Stefanie Schroeder
Films:
[ˈdʊŋkl̩ˌdɔɪ̯ʧlant] (2015, 13 min)
The effect of the gun on thunderclouds (2017, 30 min)
Final repository (2025, 17 min)
With Stefanie Schroeder & Juliane Jaschnow and followed by a moderated discussion.
30.11.2025
4 pm
Catalogue presentation and talk with the artist
14.12.2025
4 pm
Finissage with reading and guided tour through the exhibition
