Uncertain Domesticities
Uncertain Domesticities
9. 4. 2025 – 10. 8. 2025
House of Arts
Artists: Adidal Abou-Chamat, Tina Bara / Alba D’Urbano, Aneta Beranová, Ina Bierstedt, Jens Brand, Bettina Carl, Vilém Duha, Judith Miriam Escherlor, Kerstin Flake, Gluklya, Vendula Chalánková, Andreas Koch, Pauline Kraneis, Susanne Kutter, Loredana Longo, Susanne Lorenz, Isa Melsheimer, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, David Možný, Linda Perthen, Ahmed Ramadan, Inken Reinert, Tamara Spalajković, Nanaé Suzuki, Petra Trenkel, Gabriele Worgitzki
Curator: Ina Bierstedt ve spolupráci s Domem umění
A snail’s shell, a birdhouse, a clam shell, a hut, a box, a drawer, a cellar and an attic - these all are homes for the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. In his book The Poetics of Space, he refers to them as happy places because they evoke an ancient sense of familiarity and security. Feeling at home has not so much to do with a particular house, dwelling or place to sleep, but rather with belonging to a particular place, person or cultural space. In Bachelard’s terms, a house is a set of images. “A kind of attractive force of images is concentrated around the house. Is it possible to discern, through the memory of all those houses where we have found refuge or in which we have longed to live, an intimate and concrete essence, an explanation of the specific value of all our ideas of a secure home?” The exhibition Uncertain Domesticities seeks to trace the many layers of the theme of home while exploring its shifts in meaning over the past decades.
Opening: 8. 4. 2025, 18:00
Concept: Alba D’Urbano, Ina Bierstedt
Photo: Susanne Kutter, Transform Fault II, 2023