Really?
With blackros_e, Gent Bislimi alias Dark D. Dragon,
Andreas Rach, Pascale
Schuster, Mathias Strauß,
Belana Zabel
In our thoroughly digitised age, immediacy, "realness" and authenticity are considered the style phenomena of the moment. Under the title #nofilter, the artsprogram at Zeppelin University is exploring this new imperative of authenticity and the associated idea that each person or group can only speak for themselves. On this basis, we ask what is the current state of a somatically, affectively and rationally shared world. Do we live in pathologically isolated filter bubbles and epistemic silos? Is it up to mere judgement with whom we empathise, who we believe and who we understand? Or is the real challenge of civilisation to refine the practices of mediation in order to understand that which is not ourselves? What role do the arts and sciences play in communicating worlds of experience that initially seem unfamiliar? How elastic are universities when it comes to forms of knowledge and cognition that do not spring from scientific logic and how do people with autism, synaesthesia, depression, psychosis or ADHD appear in these? With the exhibition "Really?", we place the knowledge, thinking and experience of neurodiverse people and their artistic practice at the centre.
The exhibition "Really?" shows works by neurodiverse artists who work at the Goldbach Atelier of the SKID socio-cultural integration services in Überlingen, where they are supported in their individual work. In their art practice, the artists process their everyday routines and orders, familiar experiences and fantasies. Their works are not indebted to the discourses of the art world. However, this does not make them any more or less authentic, but rather testifies to the fact that there are different ways of developing and refining forms of articulation and language.
The exhibited works reveal their own approach to reality. Some deal with traumatic experiences and disturbing conflicts or articulate the desire for closeness, friendship and normality, others testify to a struggle for a foothold in reality and a pull into fantasy worlds, dark moods and abysses.
The artistic spectrum of the exhibition is extremely wide-ranging. It includes the shrill cartoons by Pascale Schuster, the magical abstract landscapes by blackros_e, dreamed-up friends with the faces of digital avatars by Belana Zabel and the systematics captured in colourful symbols that Dark D. Dragon designs as the basis of his all-encompassing parallel world, the "Scherben Welt" (world of shards). Andreas Rach's paintings reflect a cheerful view of his own work and unfold a very concrete 'company portrait' of the Überlingen institution in which he works. Matthias Strauß' dense notations allow us to participate in a search movement in the thicket of interwoven thought networks of small flickering ornaments, microbe-like creatures and stars. "Really?" invites us to see realities in the plural without having to regard them as isolated from one another.
Galerie Käsering
Galerie Käsering is located in the center of Überlingen, very close to the shores of Lake Constance and the central landing stage. It was founded in 2018, when it was still called CE8* and organized events and workshops with partner organizations in England, Ireland and Luxembourg. Although it has had a new name since 2023, the aim of creating a public, urban and inclusive space where the artists from the Goldbach studio regularly present their work in group and solo exhibitions remains the same. And that's not all: during the gallery's opening hours, they look after the rooms and use them for their artistic work.
Most of the exhibited works are for sale.
The proceeds from the sale of the artworks go to the artists and support the development of the gallery and the studio.
Website: https://www.galerie-kaesering.de
*CE stands for the French word convoi exceptionel, heavy transport, the 8 for “Above and below. Inside and outside. Infinite.”
Atelier Goldbach
In the Goldbach studio, where the artists work on weekdays, they are accompanied by the youth and home educator Sabine Claßen and the artist Michael Roggon. The studio in Goldbach and the adjoining Käsering Gallery are part of the socio-cultural integration services SKID gGmbH. SKID promotes the greatest possible independent and individual organisation of life for people with assistance needs through communal and assisted living and the creation of jobs. The non-profit organisation includes a pasta factory, a pasta shop, a laundry, firewood processing, catering businesses, workshops, an art studio and a gallery.
SKID gGmbH
The Käsering Gallery and the studio in Goldbach are part of the non-profit organization SozialKulturelle IntegrationsDienste SKID gGmbH - SKID for short.
SKID gGmbH has been an integral part of the town of Überlingen since 2004 and promotes the greatest possible independent individual lifestyle for people with assistance needs through communal and assisted living and the creation of jobs. This includes a pasta factory, a pasta store, a laundry, firewood processing, catering businesses, workshops - and art. SKID gGmbH
Project team
Karen van den Berg | Academic director of the artsprogram of Zeppelin University | karen.vandenberg@zu.de
Aladi Njei | Technical planning and installation | Site Management Zeppelin Universität
Ramiz Hetemi | Site Management Zeppelin Universität
Christina Peterfaj | Collaboration production and coordination artsprogram
Michael Roggon | Head of Goldbach Atelier and Galerie Käsering
Rahel Spöhrer | Curatorial management artsprogram
Julius Thinnes | Curatiorial assistance
In collaboration with SKID gGmbh
Opening hours
28.03.2025
Opening from 7 pm | 8 pm Dialogue tour with Karen van den Berg and Michael Roggon
31.03.- 09.05. 2025
Mon-Fri 10 am - 4 pm
10.05. -31.08.2025
Open on request and for events
01.09.- 24.10.2025
Mon-Fri 10 am - 4 pm
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