30.04.2025
Opening of the group exhibition Vier Fäuste und kein Halleluja — Mephisto Revisited
Wednesday, 2025/4/23, 8:30 pm | ACC Galerie und Kulturzentrum, Weimar /DE
For the ACC Galerie und Kulturzentrum Weimar, the four artists Piotr Szyhalski, Thomas Hammelmann, Edith Kollath und Mischa Kuball, have created the exhibition Four Fists and No Hallelujah - Mephisto Revisited, inspired by short selected text passages from Goethe's Faust. The most important protagonist, starting point and pivotal point of the exhibition is, alongside Faust, his adversary Mephisto, who is subjected to a new examination from a contemporary visual art perspective. What validity does this figure have today, with regard to violence, power and dominance relations, the construction of history and collective forgetfulness, the experience of exclusion and self-determination?
The Weimar Faust Year, initiated by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, takes Goethe's arrival in the city on the Ilm 250 years ago as an occasion and is being organized with numerous events and extensive exhibitions. On Walpurgis Night, the thematic exhibitions of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the ACC Galerie Weimar will open simultaneously with artistic interventions and a musical-performative parade connecting the exhibition venues.
Mischa Kuball, five planets, partial photograph, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2021 © Archiv Mischa Kuball, Düsseldorf / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2023