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Along the Fault Lines
Along the Fault Lines
November 12, 2025
Curated by Bettina Michel, the exhibition presents a consciously fragmented, documentary body of work that explores the social and personal fault lines left behind in the East-German provinces by Germany’s reunification. Even now, more than 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the effects of this transformation are still palpable.
The series traces a landscape marked by change – while also searching for answers in the past. It moves between collective reckoning and an intimate examination of the photographer’s own family history.
Mutterland (Motherland) does not glorify the past, nor does it seek to romanticise a defunct state. It is an attempt to capture that which does not disappear in times of transition, but shifts into a different form – a visual exploration of the fractures in Germany’s East, whose echoes are only now becoming audible. What remains is the image: as evidence, as a quiet claim to the presence.
Michel Kekulé’s work is characterised by an intense engagement with social issues – offering profound insights into unfamiliar realities.
Katrin UllmannThe series traces a landscape marked by change – while also searching for answers in the past. It moves between collective reckoning and an intimate examination of the photographer’s own family history.
Mutterland (Motherland) does not glorify the past, nor does it seek to romanticise a defunct state. It is an attempt to capture that which does not disappear in times of transition, but shifts into a different form – a visual exploration of the fractures in Germany’s East, whose echoes are only now becoming audible. What remains is the image: as evidence, as a quiet claim to the presence.
Michel Kekulé’s work is characterised by an intense engagement with social issues – offering profound insights into unfamiliar realities.
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