Student Exhibition

In an elective#mce_temp_url# of RCC's MA program "Environment and Society#mce_temp_url#" led by Dr. Hanna Straß-Senol, Dr. Anna Antonova, a group of students developed an exhibition on show at Ökologisches Bildungszentrum#mce_temp_url# from 03 April until 05 May 2025. 

If you didn't get the chance to visit the, or would like to go back, you can find a thorough documentation on the exhibition website#mce_temp_url#. 

Taumelnd trauen, verschlungen bleiben*

The exhibition is an artistic expression of a group processing the world in crisis. How can we embrace anxiety while remaining hopeful? As we tumble through the thicket of our rapidly changing environment, as we trip against rising geopolitical tensions, the making is a searching. The works exhibited suggest ways of acting despite overwhelm, ways of threading through and rising against unjust power structures, attempts of telling stories of humans and more-than-humans, moving forward, staggering but relentless.

The novel “Gun Island” (dt. “Die Inseln“) by Amitav Ghosh can be imagined as the undercurrent to the exhibition; the swampy delta from which the works entangle themselves with the book’s themes as well as with each other; like a thick emergent network of roots in the mud.

The exhibition is an invititation to move among the works as places to rest, as moments to linger in the collective reflection on the daring questions of our time.

*The title loosely translates to daring to trust tumbling, finding strength in unending entanglements

With works by

Wu Xinnan
Klara Wrusch
Jan Szesny
Meleah Moore
Manas Roshan
Florentine Illner
Namika Hamahashi
Swantje Furtak
Jula Eberth
Veronika Angermeier

Projektleitung / Project lead

Dr. Hanna Straß-Senol and Dr. Anna Antonova

Kuratorische Leitung / Curatorial Lead

Franziska Bax

Projektassistenz / Project Assistance

Malte Sattig, Sumru Elden

Text

Veronika Angermeier, Jula Eberth, Florentine Illner,
Meleah Moore, Klara Wrusch, Franziska Bax

Grafikdesign / Graphics

Namika Hamahashi, Meleah Moore, Franziska Bax

Website

Namika Hamahash