Exhibition by Karina Pino Gallardo

10 November – 1 December 2024

What is the future? How do we imagine it? Who will inhabit the world in 80 or 100 years? How can we have a dialog with a time when we will no longer exist? What will we bequeath to people who have not yet been born? The texts of women with a migration background living in Germany today become the focus of a political and sensitive reflection on the world they want to leave behind. They write letters to a tomorrow they do not know. We don’t know who will read them or whether they will be read at all: Humans, bots, aliens.

Every letter is a trace that is thrown forward, a possible archive object in a future museum of the past. Archives of fabrics, objects, words. Four personal pieces that are part of a larger mosaic. These women open their world to the world.

Der Ausstellungsraum ist ein Ort des Angebots, in dem Textilien und verschiedene Materialien zu Symbolen des Widerstands werden und stärken, was unscheinbar erscheint. Alles kann Bedeutung tragen. Alles passt in ein Museum, oder? Es hängt von den Augen ab, die betrachten, und den Köpfen, die entschlüsseln. Jede:r ist eingeladen, die Briefe zu lesen und sie mitzunehmen. Dieses Mal sind die Briefe für uns in der Gegenwart geöffnet. Heute. Jetzt.

The interdisciplinary Cuban artist Karina Pino was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2022/23. The letters were written by her as well as Nur Alamir, Marielvis Calzada and Elham Kanaani.