In collaboration with the Ernst Barlach Stiftung

The exhibition “Mögliche Übereinstimmung: Barlach X Sander” shows a further snapshot of Finja Sander's continuous engagement with the work of Ernst Barlach. Sander took the fortunate coincidence that Barlach exhibited some of his ceramics with Richard Mutz at Ludwigkirchstraße 11 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in 1904, right where the galerie burster is located today, as an opportunity to deepen her research into Barlach's work, resulting in a joint exhibition. On display are 23 risograph prints from the series “Mögliche Übereinstimmung” (Possible Correspondence) from 2024, which photographically develop Sander's performative imitation of Ernst Barlach's “Der Schwebende” (The Floating One) and work out thematic intersections between her living body and the bronze figure. They are complemented by three of Ernst Barlach’s prints, which Sander has selected and translatedinto large-scale wallpapers, demonstrating their formal parallels to the figure of The Floating One.

In addition to the artistic works on the wall, Sander reveals some of her engagement with Barlach as an artist, but also as a contemporary witness living between two world wars. With a focus on Barlach as a struggling individual in a rapidly changing society, the creation of the memorials he made and their ongoing significance for our culture of remembrance today, Sander photographed excerpts from Barlach's letter collections and translated them into a continuous text using a digital tool. Sander deliberately integrates the resulting translation and drawing errors and allows them to become part of the reading experience.