Durchdringen: Das U/unheimliche s/Sehen
Exhibition view “Durchdringen: Das U/unheimliche s/Sehen“ (Inter/Penetration: The Uncanniness of Seeing), Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 (Max Uhlig, René Graetz, Armando), © Michael Müller, Hirschvogel; Photo: Natalia Carstens Photography.
The two-part exhibition, 'Durchdringen: Das U/unheimliche s/Sehen', by artist and curator Michael Müller is on display from 11 September 2024 to 8 December 2024 at the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank as part of Berlin Art Week 2024. With a semantically and typographically layered German title, which roughly translates to “Inter/Penetration: The Uncanniness of Seeing”, it explores complementary pairs, as found, for example, in the various definitions of penetration (durchdringen), which can mean not only comprehend but also probe or scrutinise, among other things. Against this background, the exhibition also considers the relationship between the familiar (heimlich) and the mysterious (unheimlich), which psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud discussed in his 1919 essay “The Uncanny” (“Das Unheimliche”). Seemingly antithetical things, events and processes can, in fact, be mutually interrelated and inextricably connected.
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