Events

Contact Data

Venue

Gotisches Haus

Address

Breite Straße 32

13597 Berlin

Germany

Description

07 May – 20 July

Scientific research, seeing, reading and receiving archival documents are the starting points of Juliane Laitzsch's (b. 1964) artistic practice. In the exhibition ‘Galloping over water’, she shows works on paper and sculptural interventions in the Gothic House, the oldest town house in the entire Berlin area, and graphically scrutinises different perspectives on its eventful history.

The exhibition site serves as a thematic source. Her attention is focussed on marginal details of the building's history. She is just as interested in applications for the installation of advertising boards as she is in the numerous proposals for naming the Gothic House. She copies the report on the building research of the house, details from architectural plans or the photo of a drawing of the vaulted room from around 1900, which was probably made in the 1940s from a postcard that is now lost. Between these layers of media and temporality, between original and image, Juliane Laitzsch artistically seeks closeness to the people whose traces she follows.

The drawing serves her as a medium of deceleration and approximation. As a metaphor for the fact that our knowledge of history - our past - remains fragmentary and uncertain, she takes up a drawing from Villard de Honnecourt's Gothic building book - a horse galloping over water. The graphic works are complemented by sculptures that correspond with the current architecture of the rooms. In her work, Juliane Laitzsch thematises change and transformation - the flow of time, against the backdrop that we all fall off our horses at some point.

Event Times

When

Veranstaltung: May 7, 2025 - July 20, 2025

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Fees & Opening Hours

Fees

admission free

Monday -Saturday

10:00 - 18:00

Sunday

12:00 - 18:00

Exceptions

Closed on public holidays:
Thu. 08 May
Thu. 29 May
Mon. 09 July

Organizer

Organizer

Kulturamt Spandau, - Fachbereich Kultur

Categories

Categories

Architecture

Visual Arts

Tags

Gotisches Haus, Juliane Laitzsch, Spandau