The exhibition 'together making you safer', presenting new works of Christina Zueck (*1969) opens this year's programme, 'Research Stations', that artists whose practice involves research will apply themselves to. Within this theme, individual positions investigate not so much the connection between the sciences and artistic work, rather the participatory practice of researchers that occurs within foreign and local field work. The invited artists all explore and transpose the lifeworld, each reflecting their own standpoint.

Christina Zück's photographs were made in October and November 2008 during her stay in Karachi, Pakistan's 12.5 million metropolis in the South of the country. Not just since the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Karachi is considered as an "epicentre" of jihadist terrorist activities. Having already visited Karachi in September 2001, her second journey was a renewed look at familiar and notorious places that had already begun to interest her during her preparatory researches and led her to the area in which Ramzi Binalshibh lived and where he was arrested in 2002.

Christina Zück's interest in places of contemporary history made her operate in areas that she could sometimes only enter accompanied, or that are at least under latent observation. And yet in spite of the partially overt threat that she encountered, her images bear witness less to an overt violence than to a many-facetted co-existence of differing forms of existence and religious practice in one of the largest settlements in the world. In direct contrast to the strongly regulated norms of public behaviour, Christina Zück looks for spaces of free social interactivity.

For the Kunstverein, Christina Zück has selected new images from the extensive series produced in Karachi and combined them with images from the group exhibition, 'Embedded Art Kunst im Namen der Sicherheit' (until 22/3/09 in Akademie der Künste, Berlin). A newly produced sound collage from field-recorded material and selected text/image combinations from her blog that she wrote during her travels on http://zueck.wordpress.com/, will accompany the photographs.