Public Talk with Simon Gilmer, Gregor Lau and Kora Riecken, moderated by Franziska Nori

15.06.2025, 15:00

Simon Gilmer’s work only reveals itself on second glance. Through two small windows in a long wall, we peer into a parallel world: two monochrome grey rooms. Is this a backstage view? Or a life-sized architectural model? Gilmer works with grey cardboard. With impressive precision and skill, he creates replicas and models of reality that challenge the viewer’s perception and sense of what is real.

Gregor Lau has replicated an urban landscape known for decades in Frankfurt, on Sonnemann Allee in front of the ECB, as the informal day labourers’ zone. He reconstructs the street corner, casting his own paving stones and painting them with Google Street View images of a phenomenon that centres on the value of labour and human dignity.

Kora Riecken has created a spatial sound installation based on a text she wrote, which has been read aloud by various speakers. They alternately narrate parts of a story—an urban legend about ghosts that always hovers between truth and fiction. The installation is arranged in a circle around a central, imaginary campfire.

At the public discussion, moderated by Franziska Nori, you will have the opportunity to meet three of the twelve participating artists from the exhibition And This is Us 2025 – Young Artists Based in Frankfurt and engage in dialogue with them.

Admission to the public discussion is €5 plus entry to the exhibition. The talk will take place in German.