An den Rändern

“An den Rändern” (“At the Margins”) is a collaborative project between Museum Morsbroich and Kunstverein Leverkusen, curated by Miriam Edmunds and Maxie Fischer. Three presentations at both venues explore personal narratives, the transience of political systems, the interpenetration of nature and culture, and the need to capture all of this in images. The interplay of chance and history, the recognition of the unfamiliar within the familiar, and the relationship between the world and its visual depiction are recurring moments extending an invitation to move from the margins to tone's own personal experience. Jennifer Bannert, Berit Schneidereit Reprise A view of the sky, of stars, clouds, mist and fog. The outlines of plants, the sight of the foliage of an extensive garden. Jennifer Bannert and Berit Schneidereit are connected by the apparent fleetingness of their motifs, which unfold an unexpected conceptual and poetic depth on closer inspection. Amidst the Baroque setting of Morsbroich Castle, with its exuberant decorations, wall colours and mirrored surfaces, emerges an exploration of light and darkness, interior and exterior, and nature and culture that echoes the ideas of this stylistic epoch and links them to contemporary issues. Jens Klein Bilder vom Schlafen und Gehen (Images of Sleeping and Walking) Jens Klein works with photographs that he has not taken himself, but whose arrangement he has determined. He searches, investigates, reconstructs. He edits, combines, imagines. With his series of works, he questions historical contexts and opens up readings beyond familiar narratives. He finds the starting point for his works in archives, estates and collections, as well as at flea markets or in photo albums. The images originate from various constellations, ranging from private memories to bureaucratic processes and repressive measures. What they depict is inconceivable without the contexts in which they were created. And yet, in Jens Klein's work, they become second-order observations, revealing a pictoriality that transcends the circumstances and intentions of their production. Liv Burkhard, Kim da Motta Home to Horizons Liv Burkhard dedicates her artistic work to exploring her family context. Together with Kim da Motta, she explores the connection between the social norms that influenced her grandmother Erna and the new horizons opened up by her emancipatory behaviour. The examination of Erna Burkhard's life and legacy is an appreciation of supposedly “small” stories and personal memories as important contributions to larger social issues. Liv Burkhard combines her grandmother's personal experiences with feminist perspectives to create a narrative that reflects both the individual experience and the collective aspects of being a woman in an intergenerational bond.