Curator’s guided tour with Franziska Nori

04.01.2025, 15:00

The casts of victims from Pompeii, who lost their lives nearly 2,000 years ago and whose figures were preserved as moulds by volcanic material—what do they reveal to the viewer? The fossilised footprints of prehistoric humans, left 3.6 million years ago—what do they tell us about the existence of these people? The monumental, sacred brass images of animal imprints by the young artist Toni R. Toivonen—why do they move us so deeply?

“The exhibition The Presence of Absence: Matter and Traces – Imprints of Life in Time is a project close to my heart and has grown over several years. The seed for it was my encounter with the casts in Pompeii. I was deeply moved. They are not symbolic, not art, but visible to us today, after almost 2000 years, through the natural force of a volcano and the intuition of an archaeologist! At the same time, I met the young artist Toni R. Toivonen from Finland and was deeply impressed. And so the question of the presence of the absence became a journey that we embarked on together with wonderful artists and scientists: in search of traces of being.”
Franziska Nori, Director Frankfurter Kunstverein

In her guided tour through The Presence of Absence, the director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein and curator Franziska Nori explores the timeless human confrontation with the idea of change and transience and its forms of representation in art.

The tour costs 5 € in plus admission to the exhibition. Registration is not necessary.

Please note that the tour will be held in German.

We look forward to seeing you!