Participating artists:Jana Ehls | Jonas Erler | Benjamin Friedle | Takeki Hayashida | Lucie Löchel | Heidi Specker | Stephen Stahn | Anita Olarescu
Period (opening hours):Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am – 6 pm
Venue:KOLLWITZ MUSEUM KÖLN
Neumarkt 18-24
50667 Köln
www.kollwitz.de/RE: stands for ‘regarding’ [English], meaning ‘to refer to’ – and at the same time for ‘further reflection’ and ‘reinterpretation’.
During the 2025/26 academic year, Heidi Specker’s photography class at the HGB Leipzig engaged intensively with Kollwitz. The result is 19 works in various media – ranging from sculpture and photography to film and installation.
Eight of these works are now on display as BILDSTÖRUNG as part of the exhibition KOLLWITZ Ausgewählt. at the Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. The works approach Kollwitz from different perspectives: as an artist, as a woman, as a contemporary witness or as a politically engaged individual.
They draw on her work, her artistic techniques, as well as her personal accounts in diaries, letters and photographs. The result is a form of engagement that is personal without remaining private.
Some draw on Kollwitz’s visual language or motifs, whilst others examine the material conditions of her creative process, the person behind the work, or gaps in her oeuvre.
What unites them is the attempt not merely to view Kollwitz through a historical lens, but to re-examine her themes and her stance from a contemporary perspective.
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