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until 25.10. | #4796ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from Thursday, 11. September 2025 the exhibition “Passagiere der Nacht” by the artist Ulrike Theusner.
It felt kind of warm, eternal.
There shall be what we were for others.
Smatterings, fragments of us
that perhaps they thought they glimpsed.
There shall be dreams of us that they nurtured.
And we were never the same.
Each time, we were magnificent strangers,
passengers of the night that they invented,
like fragile shadows
in old, long-forgotten bedroom mirrors.
From The Passengers of the Night, a film by Mikhaël Hers (France, 2022)
I was inspired by Mikhaël Hers’ film The Passengers of the Night, set in 1980s Paris – a film about the power and importance of relationships. It was not so much the film’s topic – the story of 50-year-old Elisabeth, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who finds her way back from her state of desperate instability to optimism and courage – but more its melancholy, its fragmented narrative style, the unspoken words in between dialogues, hovering over the images, rendering everything in a sensitive, delicate lightness, as expressed so poetically in the short final monologue.
Opening: Thursday, 11. September 2025, 6 – 10 pm.
Exhibition dates: Thursday, 11. September – Saturday, 25. October 2025
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Title image caption: Ulrike Theusner, Looking back, 2025 , Monotypie, Aquarell und Pastell auf Bütten, 42,1 × 30,9 cm | Motiv: 38,1 × 28,5 cm
Exhibition Ulrike Theusner – Galerie EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
