Anhörung

The installation “Anhörung” (hearing) was created at Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz at "Du kannst das tragen" exhibition in cooperation with M.F.A. Public Art and New Artistic Strategies of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Winter 2021/22. 

It consists of ear shaped mushrooms that were collected on empty lands and next to abandoned buildings in Chemnitz and a local type of stone “Rochlitzer Porphyr” that is typical for the local Architecture but
likely to disintegrate. The mushrooms were collected, dried and then rehydrated with water of the Chemnitz river.

The city bears the same name as the river: Chemnitz is sorbian and means stone brook. 
Chemnitz used to be an important site for industrial production until 1990. This changed radically in the context of the peaceful revolution and the transformation into a capitalist society. The city lost a large amount of its population in the last decades and has to rewrite its identity in the proces of radical deindustrialisation. Wastelands and empty industrial buildings, far-right movements but also new cultural initiatives are all active in a place that still seems in suspense.

Realised under the supervision of Danica Dakic, Ina Weise and Lea Maria Wittich.