From September 14, 2023, the Georg Kolbe Museum will present the exhibition ” Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam” (“In Paradise, the Snow Falls Slowly”) by artist Lin May Saeed as a dialogue with Renée Sintenis. Styrofoam creatures climb out of their cages and colonize the Georg Kolbe Museum, wire lobsters free themselves from captivity with their scissors, figures, taken from ancient sagas reflect in Arabic-language poetry the close relationship between animals and humans. The opening will take place as part of the Berlin Art Week on September 13, 2023 from 6 pm.
The German-Iraqi artist Lin May Saeed (1973, Würzburg – 2023, Berlin) spent a good 20 years exploring the lives of animals and their role in a world now dominated by humans. The Georg Kolbe Museum is showing her first solo museum exhibition in Germany. With sculptures, reliefs, expansive silhouettes and drawings, the sculptor created a new visual language of solidarity and …
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Image above: Exhibition view “Lin May Saeed. Im Paradies fällt der Schnee langsam. A dialogue with Renée Sintenis” Georg Kolbe Museum, 2023, Photo: Enric Duch