Cuboid made of 500 picture frames, each 50 × 70 cm, in the SGK project space.
Cuboid made of 500 picture frames, each 50 × 70 cm, in the SGK project space.
Cuboid made of 500 picture frames, each 50 × 70 cm, in the SGK project space.
Sketch of the installation at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in the passage connecting the two exhibition buildings of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media.
Simulation of the banner that has already been produced and would have been mounted on the wall
Detail of the already printed banner with the text that would have been mounted on the wall behind the installation at the HfG
Detail of the already printed banner with the text that would have been mounted on the wall behind the installation at the HfG
Detail of the already printed banner with the text that would have been mounted on the wall behind the installation at the HfG
The chairs, still in their packaging, and the delivered table tops in the inner courtyard of the HfG.
The chairs, still in their packaging, and the delivered table tops in the inner courtyard of the HfG.
The chairs, still in their packaging, and the delivered table tops in the inner courtyard of the HfG.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
Template for the text on the outer wall of the SGK project space.
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 1
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 2
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 3
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 4
Catalogue: The form reflects my engagement with the exhibition as a medium. The binder represents the space, and the individual eyelet-bound brochures, each presenting one project, stand for the individual works that can be flexibly placed into the binder.
Ringösenbroschüre: WHILE STOCKS LAST | HQ, 2023 – 2025
Ringösenbroschüre: WHILE STOCKS LAST | HQ, 2023 – 2025
Ringösenbroschüre: ars vivendi, 2024 –
Ringösenbroschüre: ars vivendi, 2024 –
Ringösenbroschüre: Carte Blanche, 2022 – 2023
Ringösenbroschüre: Carte Blanche, 2022 – 2023
Ringösenbroschüre: Oui, c´est moi, 2021– 2022
Ringösenbroschüre: Oui, c´est moi, 2021– 2022
Eyelet-bound brochure Text &: Catalogue Text by Luisa Heese
Eyelet-bound brochure Text &: Catalogue Text by Luisa Heese
I deeply regret the cancellation of my exhibition turn at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe as part of the Hanna Nagel Prize 2025. At the same time, I feel extremely fortunate and would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for all the support I have received. First of all, I would like to thank the female presidents of Karlsruhe who donated the prize, as well as Luisa Heese, deputy director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, both for the catalogue text and for the introduction she would have given. Thanks to the kind support of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) Foundation, I was able to realise my exhibition project, for which I am very grateful! My sincere thanks also go to everyone who offered me their support without any hesitation: Peter Wieland, Managing Director of Adam Wieland GmbH & Co. KG, who had eight table tops and frames delivered to me; Thomas Gerber, managing director of Wilde + Spieth Designmöbel GmbH & Co. KG, who sent me 32 chairs for the exhibition; Christian Schmuck from Prisma Fine Art Services UG for agreeing to sponsor the art handling on the opening night; VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, namely Marion Scharmann, who would have held an auction in my installation on 22 February 2026, the last day of the exhibition, at 2 p.m., and who advised me in the preparations, as well as other people and companies who made donations in kind without wanting to be named and would have been happy just to see photos of the exhibition. Last but not least, I would like to thank the people who are close to me and who accompanied and supported me during the preparation period, which lasted from March 12 to November 24, 2025.
The exhibition turn begins in the atrium of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). In the passageway connecting the two exhibition buildings of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, eight tables with four chairs each are arranged at equal distances. Visitors are invited to take a seat and fill out the handwriting practice notebooks provided, using the fountain pens available on the tables. Printed in the notebooks is the sentence “I am highly gifted and exceptionally qualified.” Below it are lines awaiting completion. The part of the sentence “highly gifted and exceptionally qualified”, to which Marleine Chedraoui has prefixed “I am,” originates from a call for fellowship applications.
Upon entering the project space of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (SGK), visitors encounter, in the center between two columns, a cuboid composed of five hundred stacked white picture frames. Their number corresponds to the wall surface of the project space; the surface area of the tables at HfG corresponds to the area of the doorway to the project space at SGK. During the exhibition, the notebooks previously filled out by visitors at HfG are framed by the art handling team and hung closely side by side on the wall, so that over the course of the exhibition, the walls of the room gradually disappear behind the frames, which come to map the space itself.
On the last day of the exhibition, 22 February 2026, at 2 p.m., Marion Scharmann, expert in Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art at the VAN HAM auction house, will hold an auction within the installation at the SGK, at which the work, divided into lots, will be auctioned off.
28 November 2025 – 22 February 2026
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Exhibition within the framework of the Hanna Nagel Award 2025
Sponsored by:
With the kind support of:
Cuboid made of 500 picture frames, each 50 × 70 cm, in the SGK project space.
Cuboid made of 500 picture frames, each 50 × 70 cm, in the SGK project space.
Cuboid made of 500 picture frames, each 50 × 70 cm, in the SGK project space.
Sketch of the installation at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in the passage connecting the two exhibition buildings of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media.
Simulation of the banner that has already been produced and would have been mounted on the wall
Detail of the already printed banner with the text that would have been mounted on the wall behind the installation at the HfG
Detail of the already printed banner with the text that would have been mounted on the wall behind the installation at the HfG
Detail of the already printed banner with the text that would have been mounted on the wall behind the installation at the HfG
The chairs, still in their packaging, and the delivered table tops in the inner courtyard of the HfG.
The chairs, still in their packaging, and the delivered table tops in the inner courtyard of the HfG.
The chairs, still in their packaging, and the delivered table tops in the inner courtyard of the HfG.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
The printed handwriting practice notebooks that visitors could have filled out, which would then have been framedby the art handling team and hung on the wall of the SGK project space.
Template for the text on the outer wall of the SGK project space.
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 1
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 2
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 3
Hanging plan for the framed booklets filled out by the visitors: Wall 4
Catalogue: The form reflects my engagement with the exhibition as a medium. The binder represents the space, and the individual eyelet-bound brochures, each presenting one project, stand for the individual works that can be flexibly placed into the binder.
Ringösenbroschüre: WHILE STOCKS LAST | HQ, 2023 – 2025
Ringösenbroschüre: WHILE STOCKS LAST | HQ, 2023 – 2025
Ringösenbroschüre: ars vivendi, 2024 –
Ringösenbroschüre: ars vivendi, 2024 –
Ringösenbroschüre: Carte Blanche, 2022 – 2023
Ringösenbroschüre: Carte Blanche, 2022 – 2023
Ringösenbroschüre: Oui, c´est moi, 2021– 2022
Ringösenbroschüre: Oui, c´est moi, 2021– 2022
Eyelet-bound brochure Text &: Catalogue Text by Luisa Heese
Eyelet-bound brochure Text &: Catalogue Text by Luisa Heese
I deeply regret the cancellation of my exhibition turn at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe as part of the Hanna Nagel Prize 2025. At the same time, I feel extremely fortunate and would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude for all the support I have received. First of all, I would like to thank the female presidents of Karlsruhe who donated the prize, as well as Luisa Heese, deputy director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, both for the catalogue text and for the introduction she would have given. Thanks to the kind support of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) Foundation, I was able to realise my exhibition project, for which I am very grateful! My sincere thanks also go to everyone who offered me their support without any hesitation: Peter Wieland, Managing Director of Adam Wieland GmbH & Co. KG, who had eight table tops and frames delivered to me; Thomas Gerber, managing director of Wilde + Spieth Designmöbel GmbH & Co. KG, who sent me 32 chairs for the exhibition; Christian Schmuck from Prisma Fine Art Services UG for agreeing to sponsor the art handling on the opening night; VAN HAM Kunstauktionen, namely Marion Scharmann, who would have held an auction in my installation on 22 February 2026, the last day of the exhibition, at 2 p.m., and who advised me in the preparations, as well as other people and companies who made donations in kind without wanting to be named and would have been happy just to see photos of the exhibition. Last but not least, I would like to thank the people who are close to me and who accompanied and supported me during the preparation period, which lasted from March 12 to November 24, 2025.
The exhibition turn begins in the atrium of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). In the passageway connecting the two exhibition buildings of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, eight tables with four chairs each are arranged at equal distances. Visitors are invited to take a seat and fill out the handwriting practice notebooks provided, using the fountain pens available on the tables. Printed in the notebooks is the sentence “I am highly gifted and exceptionally qualified.” Below it are lines awaiting completion. The part of the sentence “highly gifted and exceptionally qualified”, to which Marleine Chedraoui has prefixed “I am,” originates from a call for fellowship applications.
Upon entering the project space of the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (SGK), visitors encounter, in the center between two columns, a cuboid composed of five hundred stacked white picture frames. Their number corresponds to the wall surface of the project space; the surface area of the tables at HfG corresponds to the area of the doorway to the project space at SGK. During the exhibition, the notebooks previously filled out by visitors at HfG are framed by the art handling team and hung closely side by side on the wall, so that over the course of the exhibition, the walls of the room gradually disappear behind the frames, which come to map the space itself.
On the last day of the exhibition, 22 February 2026, at 2 p.m., Marion Scharmann, expert in Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art at the VAN HAM auction house, will hold an auction within the installation at the SGK, at which the work, divided into lots, will be auctioned off.
28 November 2025 – 22 February 2026
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Exhibition within the framework of the Hanna Nagel Award 2025
Sponsored by:
With the kind support of:
