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Titel:

To Oliver

since 2012 Correspondence
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An Oliver
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The Exhibition:

since 2012

The Artwork:

Over 1700 letters were sent to Oliver, a fictive person. Because of insufficient address details,
they were returned to the sender c/o the respective exhibition venue or art institution.
“To Oliver” is a conceptual and simultaneously aesthetically visual, analog work, ongoing since 2012—a kind of diary in the form of written personal letters. The work is both poetic and political, exploring the German-German past and current events. It stages nonverbal communication using national and international postage stamps, thereby also addressing the theme of travel and the apparent dissolution of borders, leading to a reflection on the concept of home.
Questions about the archiving of data, the whereabouts and status of digitally sent messages and online posts are juxtaposed with traditional written communication, the “real” handwritten letter, which remains as a tangible, material relic.

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More Exhibitions:

Retour, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, 2026

quantum, Kunstverein zu Rostock, 2025

Gift of the gap, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, 2025

We‘ve got to get in to get out und Außen ist das Gegenteil von Innen, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hannover, 2024

Puls, Altes Jagdschloss, Wermsdorf, 2023

Vermeintlich abwegig, Brühler Kunstverein, Brühl, 2022

An Oliver, Künstlergut Prösitz, Prösitz/Grimma, 2022

Gegebenenfalls und dazwischen ein undeutliches Eben, Kunstverein Nürtingen, 2020

Schön, dass es schön war, Schloss Landestrost, Neustadt am Rübenberge, 2020

Neues aus hannoverschen Ateliers, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hannover, 2020

Coming up- going down, eine Form laufen, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, 2019

Input Output, Schwarz, Global Forest, St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, 2019

Canakkale Art Walk 2017, Homeland, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, 2017

Raumstationen, 87. Herbstausstellung, Kunstverein Hannover, 2015

20 Jahre Stipendien Künstlergut Prösitz, Klosterkirche Grimma & Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, 2014

Publications:

Zurück / Retour / Return, Katalog, 2022

Texts:

P.S. , Dr. habil Rosa von der Schulenburg, 22.02.2026

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Artworks Retour/Return

Für die Liebe sterben