Photo: Installation view of Room 4 / Gallery 3 of the exhibition "It's Just a Matter of Time", PalaisPopulaire 2025, Photo: Mathias Schormann
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When in Berlin was still a divided city, Christo and Jeanne-Claude dreamed of wrapping the Reichstag. An action that was finally realized in the reunified capital in 1995, it is regarded as a symbol of democratic participation.
The engagement with political control and individual freedom is also found in Cornelia Schleime's self-portraits Auf weitere gute Zusammenarbeit (1993). Based in her Stasi files, the artist confronts the surveillance in the GDR.
Rosemarie Trockel'sUntitled (Schizopullover) (1988) plays with the tension between individuality and uniformity. The double collar forces coexistence with one's own mirror image.
The motif of veiled or divided presence is also found in Latifa Echakhch'sScreen Shot M.M. (2015). Her screen-like sculpture, into which she integrated her own clothing, marks a spatial boundary while also recalling traces of past events.
This fragility of memory is also palpable in Marianne Berenhaut'sAbonné absent (2006). Found objects, including a telephone receiver, hint at a sudden silence. Without context, it remains unclear what the interrupted conversation was about - an echo of personal and collective losses.
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Christo, Wrapped Reichstag (Project for Berlin), 1984
© Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Cornelia Schleime, Auf weitere gute Zusammenarbeit, 1993
© Cornelia Schleime, courtesy Galerie Judin, Berlin
Rosemarie Trockel, Untitled (Schizopullover), 1988
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Latifa Echakhch, Screen Shot M.M., 2015
© Latifa Echackhch, Courtesy by Dvir Gallery
Marianne Berenhaut, Abonné absent, 2006
© Marianne Berenhaut, Courtesy by Dvir Gallery
Photo: Installation view of Room 4 / Gallery 3 of the exhibition "It's Just a Matter of Time", PalaisPopulaire 2025, Photo: Mathias Schormann
Audioguide Link
When in Berlin was still a divided city, Christo and Jeanne-Claude dreamed of wrapping the Reichstag. An action that was finally realized in the reunified capital in 1995, it is regarded as a symbol of democratic participation.
The engagement with political control and individual freedom is also found in Cornelia Schleime's self-portraits Auf weitere gute Zusammenarbeit (1993). Based in her Stasi files, the artist confronts the surveillance in the GDR.
Rosemarie Trockel's Untitled (Schizopullover) (1988) plays with the tension between individuality and uniformity. The double collar forces coexistence with one's own mirror image.
The motif of veiled or divided presence is also found in Latifa Echakhch's Screen Shot M.M. (2015). Her screen-like sculpture, into which she integrated her own clothing, marks a spatial boundary while also recalling traces of past events.
This fragility of memory is also palpable in Marianne Berenhaut's Abonné absent (2006). Found objects, including a telephone receiver, hint at a sudden silence. Without context, it remains unclear what the interrupted conversation was about - an echo of personal and collective losses.
Further artworks from this exhibition
Introduction of the exhibition
It's Just a Matter of Time
Julian Irlinger, James Gregory Atkinson, Philippe Parreno, Petrit Haliaj
Rotunda
Shilpa Gupta
Room 1
Max Beckmann, Lena Henke, Nancy Lupo, Heidi Bucher, Martin Kippenberger, Rachel Whiteread
Room 2
Cildo Meireles, Wisrah Celestino, Kai Althoff, Kandis Williams
Transition Room 2 to Room 3
Felix Gonzales-Torres, George Tony Stoll, Manfred Paul, Julia Phillips, Shilpa Gupta
Room 3