With Alexis Colin, Gina Bolle, Ilse Kind, Johanna Brummack, Moritz Jekat, Sophie Schreurs and with support from Antoine Simeão Schalk.
The exhibition Crimes of Carelessness (the deep and the foamy) deals with collective memory and historiography, using video, sound, light, text and sculpture.
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Hyper-Visionen II - Crimes of Carelessness (the deep and the foamy)
Hyper-Visionen II - Crimes of Carelessness (the deep and the foamy)
At the invitation of Villa Heike, Moritz Jekat formed a temporary collective of seven artists in the summer of 2024 under the name Eternal Knitting. Together they explored the interweaving of personal and collective memory: How do individual and collective experiences influence each other? Where do power structures permeate these memories, and how can free reflection on them succeed beyond these structures?
In this collective "knitting", the perspectives of the artists involved merge, and the exhibition deliberately avoids individual positions.
A central theme is the tension between inside and outside, public and private. The large windows of the villa, which open at sunset, transform into shop windows that show a diorama for passers-by.
The exhibition space becomes a "scenography for the outdoors" in which historical traces, props and speculative elements come together.
The props on display highlight different historical phases of the site:
The ventilation pipes, for example, are reminiscent of the period of vacancy in the 1990s and 2000s, while the stone monster stands for the many memories that have been anchored in the walls of the building since the foundation stone was laid in 1910.
The bus washing station symbolizes the "cleaning" of unwanted history and refers to the buses that drive past Villa Heike every day on their way to the nearby Hohenschönhausen Memorial (the former Stasi prison).
When entering the gallery, visitors themselves become part of this staging.
