Freya Hattenberger and Peter Simon (sitespecific GbR) present an audiovisual lecture performance.
Following this, a panel discussion begins at 15:30 with Nanette Snoep (Artistic Director of the RJM and curator of r e t u r n), Dr. Anna Brus (Kunsthistorisches Institut Köln) and Freya Hattenberger. The discussion will address the connections between artistic practice and knowledge production, as well as the questions raised by the exhibition: What does return mean when there is no longer any going back? How can new forms of belonging and community emerge from exile, displacement and loss?
About the project
From 25 November to 29 November 2026, Freya Hattenberger presents in the exhibition r e t u r n first results of her artistic research project „LIVING GROUND – A Photographic Dialogue across Colonial Histories". At its centre is the question of how the extractive logic of colonial image practices can be translated into a productive photographic dialogue.