Nadine Fecht in conversation with Thorsten Jantschek, Editor, Deutschlandfunk
Moderator: Ludwig Seyfarth

Nadine Fecht's work often explores how different voices can be heard in society. The artist is particularly interested in the relationship between individual voices and mass articulation. She also examines the visual representability of sounds and utterances in this process. One example is the megaphone motif that runs through the work complex of Unfinished Business, which is on display at the exhibition Language/Text/Image. Can you hear me? Can you see me? This spatial installation, developed especially for KAI 10, attempts to visualise the sound produced when speaking into megaphones.

In conversation with Thorsten Jantschek, who is working on an extensive radio feature about Nadine Fecht, the artist provides further insight into her work, which seems particularly relevant in light of the growing threat to democracies.

13:30 – 14:30 Uhr & 16:30 – 17:30 Uhr: Restauratorinnenführung

Am 8. Europäischen Tag der Restaurierung lädt KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION zu öffentlichen Führungen in die Ausstellungsräume ein. Unter dem Motto „Wir erhalten, was uns bewegt“ stellen wir die oft verborgene Arbeit unserer Restauratorin Vanessa Kloubert vor.

Entdecken Sie vor Ort, wie die sehr unterschiedlichen Kunstwerke der aktuellen Ausstellung Language/Text/Image. Can you hear me? Can you see me? von unserem Team nach den Vorstellungen der Künstler und Künstlerinnen installiert wurden und über die Ausstellungslaufzeit gepflegt und gesichert werden. Zudem werden anhand ausgewählter Kunstwerke Fragen zu Lagerung, Transport sowie Konservierung und Restaurierung von zeitgenössischen Kunstwerken beantwortet.

Die Teilnahme an den Führungen ist kostenfrei und ohne Anmeldung möglich.

Video screening and introduction to the work of Gillian Wearing with Dr Doris Krystof

The complex relationship between privacy and public life remains at the heart of Gillian Wearing's work to this day. The British photo and video artist became widely known in the 1990s as one of the ‘Young British Artists’ and received the prestigious Turner Prize in 1997.
How do people perceive their environment, what are they thinking about – and how much of it do they reveal to the outside world? For the photo series Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992/93), Wearing approached randomly selected passers-by on the streets of London. They were asked to spontaneously write a sentence on a white sheet of paper – a thought that was on their mind at that moment. Wearing then photographed the people on the spot with the text they had written themselves. Ten of these photographs are currently on display in the exhibition Language/Text/Image. Can you hear me? Can you see me? at KAI 10.

The event will feature the video work Confess All on Video. Don't Worry. You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian … (1994), which is related to the photo series in terms of content. The title is the text of a newspaper advertisement in which Wearing invited people to tell her their personal secrets, transgressions, sexual fantasies, incestuous relationships or desires for revenge on unfaithful partners while wearing masks, wigs or fake beards. Dr Doris Krystof from the Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf curated a major Gillian Wearing exhibition back in 2012. She has been following the artist's work for a long time and will discuss it in more detail with Ludwig Seyfarth.

Richard Long, one of the most important representatives of international Land Art, will be given a special space in the Rhineland with a central work: Rhine Driftwood Line will be on display from May 28 to September 7, 2025 as an installation at KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION in Kaistraße 14a in Düsseldorf that can only be viewed from the outside.

Guided tours take place every Tuesday at 5 pm after prior registration by email (tebbe@kaistrasse10.de).

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