- Visual Art
- Installation
- Interdisciplinary Project
`Die Tunisreise hat nie stattgefunden / The trip to Tunis never took place.`
Kirsten Kötter
27 June 2025 19:30–21:00
28 June 2025 11:00–21:00
29 June 2025 11:00–17:00
How I work artistically:
I go to places in nature or the city and record in watercolor what I see, hear, feel (wind, cold ...). If there are people there, I talk to them (if they are interested in what I am doing).
What the Tunis trip is all about:
In 2014, I hung a large canvas folded forward in front of the wall at an exhibition. The canvas was painted with large mosaic-like constructive areas of color. I placed a clay vase and plastic bowl from the DIY store in front of it, both whitewashed with acrylic paint. I also hung printouts on the wall: The trip to Tunis by the painters Klee, Macke and Moilliet in 1914 never took place. It was a fake.
https://kunstgespraech.de/tunisreise.html
I worked like this several times back then and called it a “paradoxical museum”.
And today?
Today, reality has already overtaken the theme of the 48 Hours of Neukölln. It's no longer about fake news. The rules are simply not being followed.
I don't have the words. I speak with colors and shapes in the exhibition. I show watercolors and installations from today. I show them in the school building with architecture from the time of the Tunis trip, in other words from a bygone era. From a time of colonialism, wars, imperialism and the tender beginnings of modernism. The result is a new situation.
The exhibition is in the entrance hall of the Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium. Albert Schweitzer was a renowned musician and Bach interpreter and also published many writings. He studied philosophy, theology and medicine. His mission as a “jungle doctor” in Africa is just one part of his multifaceted work.
In today's time of upheaval, we live with relics from the past that stand side by side with the present, unconnected, ignored, despised, valued, a great confusion.
I go to places in nature or the city and record in watercolor what I see, hear, feel (wind, cold ...). If there are people there, I talk to them (if they are interested in what I am doing).
What the Tunis trip is all about:
In 2014, I hung a large canvas folded forward in front of the wall at an exhibition. The canvas was painted with large mosaic-like constructive areas of color. I placed a clay vase and plastic bowl from the DIY store in front of it, both whitewashed with acrylic paint. I also hung printouts on the wall: The trip to Tunis by the painters Klee, Macke and Moilliet in 1914 never took place. It was a fake.
https://kunstgespraech.de/tunisreise.html
I worked like this several times back then and called it a “paradoxical museum”.
And today?
Today, reality has already overtaken the theme of the 48 Hours of Neukölln. It's no longer about fake news. The rules are simply not being followed.
I don't have the words. I speak with colors and shapes in the exhibition. I show watercolors and installations from today. I show them in the school building with architecture from the time of the Tunis trip, in other words from a bygone era. From a time of colonialism, wars, imperialism and the tender beginnings of modernism. The result is a new situation.
The exhibition is in the entrance hall of the Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium. Albert Schweitzer was a renowned musician and Bach interpreter and also published many writings. He studied philosophy, theology and medicine. His mission as a “jungle doctor” in Africa is just one part of his multifaceted work.
In today's time of upheaval, we live with relics from the past that stand side by side with the present, unconnected, ignored, despised, valued, a great confusion.
Biography
Kirsten Kötter
Kirsten Kötter studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the art academies in Helsinki, Kassel and Mainz. Kirsten Kötter works in multimedia: with videos, installations, objects and actions. Her painting includes watercolour and oil. At the heart of her artistic work are the ‘protocols’: Kirsten Kötter records the situation with watercolour, video and sound in nature and the city. Sometimes the focus is on light, weather and nature, sometimes a socio-political theme, sometimes both. Installations and videos are created from the watercolours, paintings, videos, sound recordings and other objects. Kötter appears in her videos as a ‘watercolour painter’. She often wears special project clothing when painting.
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