The exhibition ‘Extra Time’ by British artist Heather Phillipson has started: she has transformed the Kunsthalle St. Annen into a walk-in work of art that can be experienced by visitors until 2 March 2025.
To mark the 100th anniversary of Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain, British artist Heather Phillipson is transforming the Kunsthalle St. Annen into a walk-in work of art from 13 September 2024. The 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann’s birth will also be celebrated in 2025.
For her solo exhibition, she draws significant inspiration from the motif of time and social change, which play a central role in The Magic Mountain. The novel is about the individual experience of time against the backdrop of epochal upheavals before the First World War.
In Extra Time, the former church of the St Annen monastery becomes a portal for dreams and visions of an alternative present and possible futures. The main protagonists of the artistic staging are crow-like characters that populate the entire exhibition space. …
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Image above: Installation view Extra Time – Heather Phillipson, Kunsthalle St. Annen 2024 © Heather Phillipson, Photo: Felix König, Fotoagentur 54°