Introduction: Prof. Constanze Fischbeck, HfG Karlsruhe Venue: GEDOK Artists’ Forum, Markgrafenstr. 14, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Exhibition Dates: Saturday, 27 June – Sunday, 26 July 2026 Opening Hours: Wednesday–Friday, 5–7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 2–4 p.m. Artist Talk: Klara Beck and Flora Güldenpfennig, moderated by Prof. Susanne Kriemann – Wednesday, 8 July 2026, 6 p.m. Closing Event: Sunday, 26 July 2026 Admission: Free admission; donations welcome.

Flora Güldenpfennig (*1999) studies Media Art as well as Exhibition Design and Scenography at HfG Karlsruhe. In her artistic practice, she works at the intersection of photography, installation, and performance, exploring the relationship between body, image, and space.

Her installation In Every We There Is an I presents two works that engage with questions of freedom and playful transformations of reality: “What if our fingernails connected us to one another?”

Klara Madina Beck (*2001) studies Exhibition Design and Scenography, Dramaturgy, and Curatorial Practice at HfG Karlsruhe. Her design practice explores the visual language of mediation and creates spaces that open up new approaches to stories and social issues through stage design, installations, exhibitions, and textile works.

She presents her installation Insatiable, Lustful, Rebellious – In Search of the Witch Hunts and the Origins of the Oppression of the Female-Read Body (2025).

Visitors can listen to excerpts from more than 300 documented interrogations from the region of the former Margraviate of Baden-Baden. These testimonies are regularly interrupted by choral elements that emphasize the absent voices of those persecuted within the archives. Through the windows, an assemblage emerges in which personal research and everyday observations intertwine, drawing attention to the intersection between interior and exterior spaces. Business cards invite visitors to engage in dialogue in the present: to remember, to disagree, and to develop new perspectives; to remain critical and curious; and perhaps to recognize the extent of this dark chapter and the ways in which its traces continue to cast a shadow over our patriarchal everyday lives.

Since 2022, the Photography/Media Art and Scenography/Exhibition Design programmes at HfG Karlsruhe have presented annual exhibitions featuring student projects and diploma works. Visitors encounter contemporary artistic positions, including site-specific spatial installations and other media-based artworks.

This exhibition is part of the emerging artists support programme of GEDOK Karlsruhe. Project leads: Sabine Schäfer (GEDOK), Prof. Susanne Kriemann, and Prof. Constanze Fischbeck (HfG).

With the kind support of the City of Karlsruhe.