An exhibition by Laura Schöning

The exhibition examines how repressed or untold pasts become tangible as diffuse emotions and tensions. Archives, memories and digital and analog fragments are used to create fragile spaces in which possible futures between past and present can be imagined.

The event dates at a glance
Vernissage: Wednesday, November 05 at 6 pm
Introduction: Theresa Tolksdorf

Finissage: Monday, November 10 at 6 pm
Reading and talk with Jenny Schäfer

The exhibition Frames of my Ancestors is supported by the LiteraturRat MV and funded by the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Laura Schöning (*1998) is studying for a Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Caspar-David-Friedrich Institute of the University of Greifswald. After studying scenic arts at the University of Hildesheim and a study visit to Finland, she has been living and working in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern since 2021. In 2024 she was awarded the Rostock Art Prize in the video art category.

Jenny Schäfer, born in 1985, is an artist and author from Hamburg. She studied at the HFBK Hamburg and writes at the interface between visual art with a focus on photography and literature. In her works, she addresses everyday cultures, motherhood and the tension between art and gainful employment. Her best-known literary works include "String Figures" (2020) and "Arbeitstage" (2023), the latter of which was awarded the Hamburg Literature Prize. Her texts are characterized by experimental forms and poetic directness.