Wild West | exhibition

The exhibition Wild West has been created as a traveling show by the artists: Stefka Ammon, Björn Hegardt, Ethan Jackson and Gudrun RauwolfStationen: (Berlin) augenblick – raum für Gegenwartskunst, Philadelphia, USA basekamp, Lubbock, TX, Landmark Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, magnifico art space.

Coming Home

Lenthe is a village that belongs to the smalltown in which I grew up. The title of this work is meant literally.

Part I – Relatives

  Before my trip I interviewed all my relatives (three generations) about their memories, ideas and projections of/onto Lithuania. Audio: Conversation with relatives who were born in Lithuania. I tell them that I’m going to Lithuania and that my grandfather

Part I – The Moose on the Ice

In my family projections play an important role. My father’s and my mother’s side stranded in West-Germany. I grew up surrounded by dialects, stories and places that didn’t appear elsewhere. I am looking into these present projections onto the past.

Part I – Diorama

I shot these self- and moose portraits in Berlin’s Museum of Natural History. The diorama with moose depicts a typical river-mouth landscape, like the Nemunas in Lithuania, where my grandparents went on vacation in the 1920s when they were young.