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Haus am Waldsee shows from 2nd. October 2025 the exhibition Weathering by the American artist Beverly Buchanan (born 1940, Fuquay, North Carolina, died 2015, Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Marking a place, a material, an event and at the same time letting go characterises her artistic work. Her work opens up a tense space between presence and absence, which is dedicated to the ephemeral and consciously eludes the pursuit of control and monumentality. Buchanan’s approach to dissolution and decay testifies to a quiet rebellion and a confidence that is rooted in the poetics of lived experience and is inseparable from the inscriptions of history in the landscape.
In dialogue with the dominant artistic movements of her time, Buchanan’s practice carves out its own terrain that is deeply rooted in the historical, material and emotional conditions of African American life. By integrating simple dwellings and landscapes that bear witness to resistance, loss and invention into her work, Buchanan creates a different understanding of what it means to remember. Her works are not monuments, but express an attentive perception of the stories that are inscribed in the built environment, in nature and in landscapes, and yet …
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Image above: Beverly Buchanan, Photo: Marsh Ruins, 1981, Farbfotografie, 3,5 x 5 Zoll, Courtesy of the Estate of Beverly Buchanan und Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.
