Nomadic Memory - Messy Identities
An audio-visual collage workshop

With Tayla Lubinsky & Miriam Schickler (artists)

History books often tell complicated stories in a simplified way. But our lives are messy and often contradictory. None of us fits easily into boxes like victim/perpetrator, native/foreigner, coloniser/colonised, etc.

Through the medium of collage, we want to illustrate this complex reality in a creative and engaging way. We will work with images from the exhibition as well as additional photos, illustrations, and sounds that relate to Irma Stern’s biography and to the different contexts in which her work was produced, both in Africa and Europe. By combining this material, we aim to make unexpected connections and layer different time periods, places and people. The outcome will be a collaborative audiovisual stop-motion collage.

The workshop is open to all ages. Children under the age of 14 should be accompanied by an adult. The workshop will be held predominantly in English, with the option of translation into German. No prior knowledge or skills are required.

Talya Lubinsky is a visual artist from Johannesburg, based in Berlin. She works with the poetic and material qualities of elemental matter as aggregates to bring into conversation seemingly disparate geographic and temporal contexts. Solo exhibitions include Melting Stone, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial, Flossenbürg (2022) and Marble Dust, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2020). She is a recipient of the NEUSTART Stipendium (grant) from the Stiftung Kunstfonds for 2022 and 2023.

Miriam Schickler works at the intersection of sound, research, performance, and education. Her work focuses on auditory culture and the production of knowledge through sound and listening and how these processes are entangled within power structures. She works as an artistic associate at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

This event is spart of the pluralistic Discourse Programme Not Easy: It invites dialogue on plural perspectives within contemporary German memory discourse and social coexistence. Starting from the life and work of the artist Irma Stern (1894–1966), it explores the complex entanglements of antisemitism, colonialism and racism. The programme encourages participants to expand their perspective on Stern’s ambivalent experiences between persecution and exile as a Jewish German woman, as well as her privileges as a white South African.

Developed by Ahmad Dakhnous, Tahir Della, Anna Yeboah and Yehudit Yinhar, accompanied by Pegah Byroum-Wand and Daniela Bystron.

Due to the limited number of participants, please register here. Participation in public events is included with the museum admission. Meeting point: ticket counter in the foyer.