- Photography
- Installation
Death & Devil
Anne Goldmann, Lotte Kobel
27 June 2025 19:00–23:59
28 June 2025 12:00–23:59
29 June 2025 12:00–19:00
Death & Devil
What is this project about? A topic that couldn't be more relevent: dying and survival in the German healthcare system. It affects us all and yet seems to have increasingly faded from public discourse in recent years.
‘Modern’ medicine now rarely considers the whole person. Issues of health and illness are too often disconnected from their structural contexts, and societal responsibilities are blurred.
Patients are overwhelmed by imaging techniques, test results and endless diagnostics. Medical facts and treatments often clash with the individual perceptions and needs of those affected. Yet, being seen as an individual is crucial for healing
Truth and perception is a particularly difficult and controversial topic in this context. It is a mistake to believe that we remain unaffected by this.
“Is health a synonym for order? Does illness, therefore, mean chaos within the body? A diagnosis and its treatments that gradually plunge me into physical, emotional, and psychological chaos. Nothing is the same as before, and yet, I try—always smiling—to at least keep up the appearance of order!” Anne Goldmann on 'My Backward Glance'
“ 'We Claim the Gardens' is a work about illness and dying. It reflects their place in our increasingly image-obsessed society and healthcare system. Even in medicine, snapshots now dominate the narrative. They create quick certainties, while deeper questions about how the system works, our own hopes and fears get pushed aside.” Lotte Kobel
References
“Moving images and stories. Important to bring the elusive, chaotic, anxious into words and images.”
“Show your wound ... wrote Beuys. This motto speaks from the works and allows me to go inwards.”
Artist talk on Sunday, 29 of June 2025 at 1pm
What is this project about? A topic that couldn't be more relevent: dying and survival in the German healthcare system. It affects us all and yet seems to have increasingly faded from public discourse in recent years.
‘Modern’ medicine now rarely considers the whole person. Issues of health and illness are too often disconnected from their structural contexts, and societal responsibilities are blurred.
Patients are overwhelmed by imaging techniques, test results and endless diagnostics. Medical facts and treatments often clash with the individual perceptions and needs of those affected. Yet, being seen as an individual is crucial for healing
Truth and perception is a particularly difficult and controversial topic in this context. It is a mistake to believe that we remain unaffected by this.
“Is health a synonym for order? Does illness, therefore, mean chaos within the body? A diagnosis and its treatments that gradually plunge me into physical, emotional, and psychological chaos. Nothing is the same as before, and yet, I try—always smiling—to at least keep up the appearance of order!” Anne Goldmann on 'My Backward Glance'
“ 'We Claim the Gardens' is a work about illness and dying. It reflects their place in our increasingly image-obsessed society and healthcare system. Even in medicine, snapshots now dominate the narrative. They create quick certainties, while deeper questions about how the system works, our own hopes and fears get pushed aside.” Lotte Kobel
References
“Moving images and stories. Important to bring the elusive, chaotic, anxious into words and images.”
“Show your wound ... wrote Beuys. This motto speaks from the works and allows me to go inwards.”
Artist talk on Sunday, 29 of June 2025 at 1pm
Biography
Anne Goldmann, Lotte Kobel
Anne Goldmann studied sinology and theatre studies before switching to goldsmithing. As a master craftswoman, she set up and managed a training workshop for socially disadvantaged young women at a non-profit organisation. Since being diagnosed and coping with breast cancer, focus on her own cultural and artistic interests and voluntary work for the Papillons theatre ensemble and in end-of-life care.
Lotte Kobel, born in 1966 in Hamburg. Lived and worked abroad for several years. Studied human medicine in Hamburg and scenic writing in Berlin. Specialist in psychosomatic medicine with a focus on social medicine, also works as a lecturer and author. She already took photographs in her youth. Trained at the Photocentrum Kreuzberg, where she participated in several group exhibitions.
Lotte Kobel, born in 1966 in Hamburg. Lived and worked abroad for several years. Studied human medicine in Hamburg and scenic writing in Berlin. Specialist in psychosomatic medicine with a focus on social medicine, also works as a lecturer and author. She already took photographs in her youth. Trained at the Photocentrum Kreuzberg, where she participated in several group exhibitions.
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