Zärtlichkeit, Zins & Zusammenbruch.

The Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition in southern Germany by Berlin-based artist Julia Lübbecke. Julia Lübbecke works with sculptural installations, photography, text, video, and performative elements. Her artistic research projects usually take their starting point in archives or libraries. She critically examines archival materials and reproductions to explore how power relations are inscribed both in archives and in bodies. In her research on the representation of female-read bodies in the sphere of labour and political struggle, the historical continuity of institutional violence in medicine, and the right to bodily autonomy, she is particularly interested in the relationship between the informative and the emotional—or affective—dimensions of knowledge. The extensive solo exhibition “Zärtlichkeit, Zins & Zusammenbruch” presents three ongoing series of works together for the first time. The artist adapted the installations specifically to the space and developed them further so that their interrelationships and references to one another become apparent within the exhibition space. Furthermore Julia Lübbecke has been looking into the sociopolitical linking of a person’s worth to their unability to work, as social benefits are increasingly made contingent on availability for work, and those unable to work are highly devalued or shamed in current political discourses. This draws on concepts historically linked to fascist ideology. Therefore she examines the societal connection of human dignity and labor. Social Media Handles: @kunsthaus.kaufbeuren @uli.ecke