Wo ich wohne reflects on the history of the Haus am Waldsee through its setting, the Villa Knobloch, built in 1922 for the Jewish textile manufacturer Herrmann Knobloch, where mere weeks after the end of the Second World War, the institution found its beginnings. The language of the building, in which both victims and perpetrators of National Socialism lived, is understood not only as a framework, but as a material in its own right – against, with, and through the works in the exhibition disclose ties between the private and the political. The violent events and social struggles of the past century echo in its architecture, its grounds, its location and its agency. They recount an attempt at bourgeois demarcation, clinging to an alleged normality even as the world outside the windows is in turmoil. 


The international group exhibition unfolds alongside a spatial intervention by artist Richard Venlet and brings together historical and new works by Nigin Beck, Rhea Dillon, Robert Haas, Hannah Höch, Alexandre Khondji, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Henry Koerner, Ayumi Paul, Yoora Park, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, Oskar Schlemmer, Renée Sintenis, Ian Waelder and Frau von Zinowiew.

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Wo ich wohne reflects on the history of the Haus am Waldsee through its setting, the Villa Knobloch, built in 1922 for the Jewish textile manufacturer Herrmann Knobloch, where mere weeks after the end of the Second World War, the institution found its beginnings. The language of the building, in which both victims and perpetrators of National Socialism lived, is understood not only as a framework, but as a material in its own right – against, with, and through the works in the exhibition disclose ties between the private and the political. The violent events and social struggles of the past century echo in its architecture, its grounds, its location and its agency. They recount an attempt at bourgeois demarcation, clinging to an alleged normality even as the world outside the windows is in turmoil. 


The international group exhibition unfolds alongside a spatial intervention by artist Richard Venlet and brings together historical and new works by Nigin Beck, Rhea Dillon, Robert Haas, Hannah Höch, Alexandre Khondji, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Henry Koerner, Ayumi Paul, Yoora Park, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, Oskar Schlemmer, Renée Sintenis, Ian Waelder and Frau von Zinowiew.

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