Strangers and Freedom at the Diesel Power Station Cottbus: Mona Höke and Kathrin Karras in Dialogue
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When Cosmopolitanism Meets Contemporary Art
At the Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art in the Diesel Power Station Cottbus, Strangers and Freedom unfolds a multifaceted dialogue between painting, photography, and art historical memory. The exhibition is part of a three-part cycle and connects the artistic handwriting of Mona Höke and Kathrin Karras with reflections on Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau as a figure of departure, travel, and cultural openness.
An Art Experience between Unique Painting and Photography
Particularly captivating is the collaborative approach of the two artists: photography, digital image production, and unique painting intertwine in the works created. This results in an exhibition situation where image boundaries do not remain stable but reveal themselves as open, lively transitions. Those who engage in the contemplation of the works experience an exhibition atmosphere full of layers, contrasts, and visual echoes.
Mona Höke: Painting as Poetic Imagery
Mona Höke, born in 1971 in Guben, has been working freelance for many years in Cottbus and Berlin. Her painting moves between graphic density, color-intense surfaces, and an image logic that lives from dialogue with literature and cultural history. Awards such as the Young Art Promotion Prize, the Art Promotion Prize of the Sparkasse Spree-Neiße, and the Brandenburg Art Prize demonstrate her art historical presence in the regional and supra-regional context.
Kathrin Karras: Photography Art as a Search for Traces
Kathrin Karras, born in 1967 in Guben, is one of the prominent figures in contemporary photography in Brandenburg. Her works understand photography as a search for traces in both interior and exterior spaces. Instead of clarity, image spaces arise that recall painting and poetry, rearranging the relationship between memory, dream, and reality. This aesthetic experience gives the project a quiet, yet intense depth.
Pückler, Freedom, and the Question of the Other
The reference to Pückler expands the exhibition to include a cultural-historical dimension. It is about traveling, changing perspectives, and the question of how art makes the experience of the foreign visible. This is precisely where the strength of this project lies: it is not a pure retrospective, but a current, exploratory exhibition on perception, identity, and the freedom of the artistic gaze.
What Visitors Can Expect
At the Diesel Power Station, modern and contemporary art, biographical lines, and open image spaces meet. The exhibition is aimed at art enthusiasts who want to experience painting, photography, and curated contemporary art in a lively context. Those visiting Cottbus in the summer will find a concentrated art experience with high aesthetic intensity.
Conclusion: Strangers and Freedom invites you on a demanding, sensual, and thought-provoking exhibition journey. Between the Pückler context, painterly gesture, and photographic density, a noteworthy dialogue is created that one must experience live in the museum.
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