Drawing for Maja Nagel resembles a concentrated being-in-the-world, an appropriative, subjectively charged devotion to whatever is in front of her, be it a landscape, a watering can or the ashtray on the table.

However, the interest of the artist, who was born in Bautzen in 1959 to Sorbian parents, is not limited to the everyday given. In narrative drawings that follow on from one another, as well as in animated and documentary films, she devotes herself to the balancing of tensions in the encounter of conflicting forces, such as: woman meets man, Sorbian tradition and identity come into confrontation with German majority relations and globalisation, or the tendency to view human victims in times of war as a uniform mass stylised into schemes meets mourning for individuals.

The struggle for reconciliation remains, borne by the dynamism inherent in Maja Nagel as an artist.

Conversation with the artist and the curators: Friday, 24 October, at 8 pm

Exhibition duration: 8 September-24 October 2025 (closed on 3 October)

Opening times: Mon-Fri 4pm-7pm, Mon + Thu 10am-1pm