© Vanny Bosch
Opening 09.09.2021
Exhibition from 09/10/21 to 04/24/22.
RAF, NSU and IS represent terrorist groups whose extremist propaganda and political violence challenge the visual arts to respond decisively. The exhibition "MINDBOMBS " at Kunsthalle Mannheim opens a highly topical artistic perspective on the history and political iconography of modern terrorism. For the first time, the effects of social revolutionary, far-right, and jihadist terrorism on visual culture are examined together in three sections. Twenty years after September 11, 2001 and ten years after the discovery of the NSU in Germany, the exhibition is dedicated to the combat concept of terrorism and how it has changed in history from the French Revolution to the present.
On display are works by Hiba Al Ansari, Khalid Albaih, Morehshin Allahyari, Francis Alÿs, Kader Attia, Walter Dahn & Jiří Dokoupil, Jacques-Louis David, Christoph Draeger, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Forensic Architecture, Chloé Galibert-Lâiné & Kevin B. Lee, Gregory Green, Johan Grimonprez, Richard Hamilton, Omar Imam, Initiative 19. Februar Hanau, Christof Kohlhöfer, Susanne Kriemann, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Almut Linde, Georg Lutz, Édouard Manet, Paula Markert, Olaf Metzel, Henrike Naumann, Wolf Pehlke, Ariel Reichman, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Ivana Spinelli, Klaus Staeck, J.M. Voltz
Interventions "Brick by Brick": Francesca Audretsch, Vanessa Bosch, Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun, Charlotte Eifler & Clarissa Thieme, Anna Knöller, Isabelle Konrad, Judith Milz, Nis Petersen, Johanna Schäfer, Natalia Schmidt, Karolina Sobel, Janis Zeckai.
Curator: Dr. Sebastian Baden
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication published by Kerber Verlag with contributions by Sebastian Baden, Robert Dörre, Larissa D. Fuhrmann, Sebastian Gräfe, Christoph Günther, Daniel Hornuff, Katharina Jörder, Maryam Kirchmann, Charlotte Klonk, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Susanne Kriemann, W.J.T. Mitchell, Simone Pfeifer, Friederike Schäfer, Sylvia Schraut and Verena Straub.
Working group Brick by Brick, HfG Karlsruhe:
Vanessa Bosch, in collaboration with Francesca Audretsch
Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun
Anna Knöller, Alumna HfG
Isabelle Konrad
Judith Milz, Alumna HfG and Johanna Schäfer
Nis Petersen
Natalia Schmidt, Alumna HfG
Karolina Sobel, Alumna HfG
Janis Zeckai
Artists participating at the invitation of Brick by Brick: Charlotte Eifler and Clarissa Thieme