The artists transform the pages into exhibition and urban spaces using installation and performative practices to render visible the complexity of various perspectives through the interplay of photography with film, sound, text and drawing as well as performance. The examination of family history(s), personal identity and societal perception as well as the questioning ofstereotypical image worlds and societal roles are thematic fields within the exhibition.

The work Rato Tesoura Pistola by Pedro Guimarães (*1977) combines drawings with photographs and can be seen as a familial joint project by the artist and his two children. Sarai Meyron (*1995) deals with her own Jewish identity in the audio installation No Words of Warmth / keine wärmenden Worte in the museum garden and examines the influence of the past and her own migration history on the lived present. Lebohang Kganye’s (*1990) own family history is also the starting point for her work – in a kind of performative practice, she adopts the poses of her deceased mother in old family photographs at the respective places where they were taken. While the book project One Day Every Day by Zuzana Pustaiová (*1990) deals with social role patterns and stereotypes in our present in a critical and at the same time humorous way, the Western perception of Asian culture is the starting point for the questioning of one’s own identity in the installation She sang a song while I was dreaming by Hien Hoang (*1990), which was especially developed for the exhibition. In his book Tofu Knife, Kohei Kawatani (*1992) deals with questions of the perception of the photographic image in the digital age and uses both the museum space and the adjacent public space for his installation. It is precisely in this public space in Braunschweig where the project HRTLND by Mads Holm (*1990) looks at the relationship between fictional and real urban space.

In a vacant space in the immediate vicinity of the museum, a selection of photo books by students from the universities of Hanover and Dortmund will also be presented under the title FIRST PAGES.