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Roméo Mivekannin
29.11.2025 – 01.03.2026

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Roméo Mivekannin, La femme à la pancarte : femme allemande confrontée à une humiliation publique à cause d’une liaison amoureuse avec un Polonais (The Woman with the Sign: German woman publicly humiliated for a romantic relationship with a Polish man), 1942, 2025, acrylics and elixir bath on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

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Roméo Mivekannin, La scène des Monuments Men: After Rembrandt‘s Self-Portrait (Scene of the Monuments Men: After Rembrandt‘s Self-Portrait), 1946, 2025, acrylics and elixir bath on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

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Roméo Mivekannin, La scène du régime nazi : Hitler en visite à la Maison de l‘art allemand, temple de l’art officiel nazi à Munich (Scene of the Nazi-Regime: Hitler visiting the Haus der Deutschen Kunst, the center of official Nazi art in Munich), 1942, 2025, acrylics and elixir bath on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

(In)visibility of violence
22.08.- 02.11.2025

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Kresiah Mukwazhi, the high priests, 2024, Bra straps on canvas, 120×140 cm, Photo: Simon Vogel.

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Lucinda Devlin, The Omega Suits, Virginia Electric Chair, 1991, Courtesy of Galerie m, Duisburg and the artist.

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Lucinda Devlin, The Omega Suits, Mississippi Witness Room, 1998, Courtesy of Galerie m, Duisburg and the artist.

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Thomson&Craighead, A Short Film About War, 2009/2010, Filmstill, Courtesy of the artists.

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Johanna Maria Fritz, Butscha, Ukraine, 2022, Courtesy of ARTCO Berlin und the artist.

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Johannah Herr, American War Rug XVII (Hawaii, 1893), 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Gaa, New York + Cologne

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Jonas Höschl, 80 Portraits: 73 Männer, 7 Frauen, 2023, Courtesy of the Artist

Céline ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann
11.04.2025 – 20.07.2025

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Céline Ducrot, Walk a while, 2024, Acrylic on MDF board, 170 × 120 cm

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Céline Ducrot, Filaments, 2024, Arcylic ink on MDF board, 280 x 190 cm

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Céline Ducrot, Right through you, 2023, Arcylic ink on MDF board, 100 × 70 cm

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Céline Ducrot, No ordinary machine, 2024, Acrylic on MDF board, 190 × 280 cm

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Cathrin Hoffmann, The Kneeling, 2022, Synthetic polymer, epoxy resin, lacquer, 170 × 100 × 175 cm

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Cathrin Hoffmann, Soft Slide on Gravel Paths, 2025, oil and quartz sand on canvas, 160 x 120 cm

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Cathrin Hoffmann, Our bodies know, 2025, oil on linen, 90 x 180 cm

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

Exhibition View
Céline Ducrot + Cathrin Hoffmann. Hardest Kinds of Soft, 2025, Photo: Jens Gerber

JahresPorgramm
2025

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Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage pf Space: Ziggurat of Dead Zones, installation view kunsthalle Giessen, 2024, Photo: Jens Gerber.

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Left: Cathrin Hoffmann, It’s Too Soon To Cry, 2022; Right: Céline Ducrot, Soft Spots, 2024. Courtesy of the artists.

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Thomson&Craighead (2009/2010), A Short Film About War, Filmstill, Courtesy of the artists.

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Sybille Ruppert, o.T., o.J, Collage. Courtesy Privatsammlung Giessen. Photo: Lena Fries.

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Roméo Mivekannin, Young woman with peonies, after Frédéric Bazille, 2023, acrylic and elixir bath on canvas, 134x167cm. Courtesy of the Artist & Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

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(Re)Spacing, Mama Made Me Do It, in cooperation with Stadttheater Giessen, dance performance by and with Emma Jane Howley, Gustavo de Oliveira Leite, Maja Mirek & Omar Torrico Real, 2024. Photo: Jacob Boll.

Raphaela Vogel
29.11.2024 – 02.03.2025

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Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024, Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.

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Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024, Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.

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Raphaela Vogel, The Dressage of Space, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

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Raphaela Vogel, Die Geschichte vom Oberägypter und seinem fränkischen Weibe, 2023, Polyurethane elastomer, goat leather, oil lacquer. Courtesy of the artist.

(Re)Spacing – Mama made me do it
Dance performance by and with Emma Jane Howley, Gustavo de Oliveira Leite, Maja Mirek & Omar Torrico Real

Wednesday, 23.10.24, 7 pm, Kunsthalle Giessen
A cooperation with the Stadttheater Gießen

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Gustavo de Oliveira Leite (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Gustavo de Oliveira Leite (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Maja Mirek (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Maja Mirek (c) Stadttheater Gießen

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Omar Torrcico Real (c) Stadttheater Gießen

Depictions of Excessive Force – Between Destruction and Attraction
Dialogpanel
Wednesday, 30.10.2024, 6 pm

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Vincent Haiges, The corpse of a dead Russian soldier in the car of a search team. The collected bodies are
brought to the local morgue. Ukrainian officials estimate that around 100 Russian soldiers were killed in the attack. Voznesenk, 15 March 2022.

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Kubra Khademi, Armor, 2015. Courtesy of the Artist& Galerie Eric Mouchet © Naim Karimi