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"Long-distance Relationships"
Curators: Zofia nierodzińska, Stephan Koal
KVOST, Berlin: 20.11.2024 - 18.01.2025
Gallery Lectwo, Poznan: 31.01 - 09.03.2025
The exhibition "Long-distance Relationships", a collaboration between KVOST in Berlin and Gallery Lectwo in Poznan, explores the theme of migration, especially labour migration, which always takes place from less privileged countries and regions to more industrialised and prosperous ones. Its direction is therefore specific: from east to west and from south to north. Throughout Germany and in Berlin, the largest minorities are from Turkey and Poland. How does the situation of the so-called 'Gastarbeiters' of the mid-twentieth century affect the self-esteem and life opportunities of the ancestors of labour migrants, how does the migration associated with the transformation period and then with the expansion of the EU into post-socialist countries affect the status of migrating people from these parts of the world?
With artists Aykan Safoğlu, Zofia nierodzińska, Alicja Rogalska, Lesia Pcholka and Uladzimir Hramovich, the exhibition aims to explore how the experience of migration shapes one's identity and relationships with others. Among them are those who left their country of origin, those who choose to stay, and those who have been left behind. With its focus on human bonds and connections, the exhibition does not aim to simply compare the often very different and personal migration stories that have inspired the artists' works. Rather, it seeks to relate the different ways in which the experience of migration structures not only the material but also the emotional foundations of life.