The exhibition »Black Hole Memories« presents the different works by the artists Jannicke Låker (born 1968 in Norway, lives in Berlin) and Claudia Reinhardt (born 1964 in Viernheim, lives in Berlin and Norway) which plumb the depths of the relationship between authenticity and staging. The exhibition takes place within the framework of the annual program with the motto »Great Feelings.«

In her videos, Jannicke Låker’s takes up topics as racism, sexual violence, and power games. Her protagonists find themselves in extremely unpleasant situations. Låker’s often unbridled stories give the viewer a feeling of extreme discomfort because he is shown exactly what he really does not want to see. The films are based on simple scripts with a setting that intended to provoke authentic a response from the performers. Jannicke Låker’s newest film »Sunday Morning« (2007) will be shown in the exhibition. The video is about a woman coming home after a night of carousing. Seemingly comic at first, the situation gradually takes on a particularly frightening dimension.

In photographs, texts, and films, the artist Claudia Reinhardt deals with her own childhood and adolescence in the small German city Viernheim in Southern Hessen. She photographed previously familiar places sites in her old home town: the house in which she lived with her parents and five sisters, her uncle’s butcher shop, the cemetery, her parent’s bedroom – uninhabited places which seem to have remained unchanged over the course of time. The provincial idyll appears sinister and nightmarish in the photographs. A series of photographs from Claudia Reinhardt’s project as well as her newest film »No Place like Home« (2007, 10 Min.) will be shown in the exhibition. In it, she calmly and objectively relates her recollections. But the ostensibly ideal world starts showing deep cracks that indelibly etch themselves into the viewer’s memory.