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Reading: Nahaufnahmen (engl.: close ups)

17.01.2025 19:00 – 20:30

In reference to & continuation of the reading Körperbilder I Johanna Hansen, Monika Littau & Birgit Kölgen will read texts from “Nahaufnahmen”, a special edition of the literary magazine WORTSCHAU in cooperation with the Sprengel Museum/Hannover.

Johanna Hansen/Düsseldorf, author, painter, book illustrator and editor of the literary magazine WORTSCHAU, Monika Littau/Bonn, author and Birgit Kölgen, cultural journalist and author will come in reference to and continuation of the reading Körperbilder I once again now as part of the exhibition Nach der Zukunft / Post Future. They read texts from the special edition Nahaufnamen from 2024, a cooperation with the Sprengel Museum in Hannover.

In it, 35 invited authors comment on 20 works by female visual artists from the museum’s collection. The deliberately literary positions and the respective works in the special edition of WORTSCHAU can thus be understood as a counter-perspective to the dominant art-historical canon.

All of the texts that were created can be read in the special edition of WORTSCHAU, Nahaufnahmen (engl.: close ups). Johanna Hansen and Monika Littau have made a selection for the reading, which they present in conjunction with the respective works.

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