Honji Wang and Oguz Sen: Performance “La La Land: Aufhören anzufangen”
18.04.2026, 19:00
For the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Sen and Wang have jointly developed a participatory work at the intersection of drawing and performance. La La Land – Aufhören anzufangen is conceived as an open system, sustained by collective participation and continuous transformation.
Over several weeks, a large-scale wall drawing takes shape as part of the exhibition Hidden History – Facets of Subculture in Frankfurt Rhine-Main, developed collaboratively by different groups. Participants include people with experiences of addiction, people experiencing homelessness, individuals with migration backgrounds, as well as children and young people in care. Each contributes their own experiences, perspectives and forms of expression.
The process follows a simple principle: each group continues what others have begun. Drawings are added to, overlaid or extended—forming a collective image that has no fixed end.
In parallel, Sen and Wang develop a performance that activates the space together with students from the Rudolf Koch School in Offenbach and dancers Caterina Politi and Marco Di Nardo. Without a fixed choreography, movement emerges from presence, encounter and situation. Performers and participants share the space on equal terms—between action and stillness, decision and openness.
The work creates a temporary, democratic space in which artistic production becomes tangible as a collective process. The concept is transferable: it can adapt to different places, groups and contexts while remaining consistent in its core—starting, stopping, continuing.
Oguz Sen is an activist working in public space, engaging in social and political discourse. Through his large-scale murals, he addresses political issues and social injustices. His well-known works include a mural at Frankfurt’s Osthafen dedicated to Alan Kurdi, who drowned in the Mediterranean in 2015 while fleeing Syria, as well as a 27-metre-long painting beneath the Friedensbrücke commemorating the victims of the racist attack in Hanau, realised together with the “Kollektiv ohne Namen”.
He shares a long-standing friendship with internationally acclaimed and award-winning dancer Wang. Honji Wang is a choreographer and performer shaped by hip-hop underground culture. Raised in Frankfurt as the daughter of Korean immigrants, she is a self-taught artist who developed her practice outside institutional frameworks. Her work emerges from lived experience, where movement becomes a form of knowledge—rooted in breakdance, martial arts, and the physical realities of discipline, labor, and resilience.
Since 2010, she has co-directed Wang Ramirez with Sébastien Ramirez. Together, they have created a distinct body of work that tours internationally across theaters, festivals, and contemporary art contexts. Their practice moves fluidly between underground and mainstream visibility, including collaborations with Madonna (Rebel Heart Tour), while maintaining a strong authorial voice.
Her work has been recognized with major international awards, including a Bessie Award.
Across her choreographic and performative work, Wang is interested in the body as a site of memory, contradiction, and transformation.
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