Opening: Juliane Laitzsch - Galloping over water

In the exhibition Galloping on Water, she presents works on paper and sculptural interventions in the Gothic House, the oldest town house in the entire Berlin area, and explores various perspectives on its eventful history through drawing.


The exhibition space serves as a thematic source. Her attention is focused on marginal details of the building's history. She is interested in applications for the installation of billboards as well as the numerous suggestions for naming the Gothic House. She copies the report on the building's architectural research, details from architectural plans, and a photograph of a drawing of the vaulted room around 1900, presumably created in the 1940s based on a now-lost postcard. Between these layers of media and temporality, between original and image, Juliane Laitzsch artistically seeks proximity to the people whose traces she follows.


Drawing serves her as a medium for slowing down and bringing things closer together. As a metaphor for the fact that knowledge about history – the past – remains fragmentary and uncertain, she draws on a drawing from Villard de Honnecourt's Gothic Bauhüttenbuch (Builders' Lodge Book) – a horse galloping over water.


The drawings are complemented by sculptures that correspond to the current architecture of the spaces. In her work, Juliane Laitzsch addresses change and transformation – the flow of time, against the backdrop that everyone falls off their horses at some point.

• Welcome: Dr. Carola Brückner, District Councilor
  
• Introduction: Dr. Jens-Ole Rey, Artistic Director of the Gothic House
  

(TALK IN GERMAN)