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Walder, 2023, Installation view, EXILE Erfurt

Kinga Kiełczyńska, Arch, 2023, wood and reclaimed computer motherboards, 110 x 79 x 8 cm

Thomas Bayrle, A Gift to Erik, 2010, iron, wood, 22 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm

Walder, 2023, Installation view, EXILE Erfurt

Erik Niedling, Untitled IV (Burial of the White Man), 2022, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm

Kazuko Miyamoto, Woman in Snow, 1998, archival inkjet print from original slide, 25 x 38 cm, printed 2009

Erik Niedling, Untitled (Chamber), 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, A Gift to Ingo, 2010, horn, chain, nail, 15 x 40 x 8.5 cm

Ingo Niermann, Cause For A Greater Love Than Ever Before, 2022, paper, rubber band, 29.7 x 9.5 x 4 cm

Walder, 2023, Installation view, EXILE Erfurt

Erik Niedling, Flag Painting II (Deutsch Süd-Ost), 2022, oil on canvas, 90 x 75 cm

Fabian Reetz, East German Gothic Study 2, 2023, slate, wood, nails, 70 x 50 cm

Walder, 2023, Installation view, EXILE Erfurt

Ingo Niermann and Erik Niedling, Walder, 2023, video, 7:25 min

In Romanticism, the forest serves as a timeless refuge from the modern world. The group exhibition Walder assumes that the forest is no longer an antipode, but the dominant reality. Ingo Niermann and Erik Niedling’s video of the same title shows a lonely middle-aged man strolling through the Thuringian woods, imagining himself as the law, the power and the people. This work is complemented by paintings, drawings, photographs and artefacts, also by Fabian Reetz, Genesis P. Orridge, Kazuko Miyamoto, Kinga Kiełczyńska and Thomas Bayrle, in which the word for world is again forest.

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