The exhibition focuses in different ways on the question of how we perceive space, especially the political and cultural space.

For 21 years, I have been working on the joint urban space of Słubfurt – a spacial concept that incorporates both cities of Frankfurt and Słubice, covers the national borders of Poland and Germany and then expands into the whole border region. This is how the idea of Nowa Amerika was developed.

Karl-Ludwig Diehl had seen the film Nowa Amerika and sent me a photo showing his window in Harlem, New York with a view facing in the direction of Nowa Amerika. Later, he started to make digital drawings of all border regions in the world, named them Nowa Amerika and began imagining them as new spaces for future cities. In 2018 Tanel Rander invited me to come to Valga-Valka at the Estonian-Latvian border to visit his project A Mole, Larger in Size Than Ever Seen Before. Together we concentrated on the concept of Valgka.

Through Tanel I got to know Miha Kosovel. Tanel spent two weeks in the project space Carinarnica, at the border checkpoint between Nova Gorica and Gorizia. Now, Miha Kosovel will spend three weeks on a residency of the Kunstverein in Frankfurt and we will have ample time to think about further expanding Nowa Amerika.

 The extraordinary variety of objects observed in nature evoke from time to time curiosity and reflection. We don’t need to know their meaning or function in order to realize that they (or at least fragments of them) remain in a strange relationship to their environment, that is all the stronger the more the surrounding nature dominates them. I see such objects as a starting point, as sign posts, which they become in order to determine not only where I am, but also whether they can accompany me somewhere. For me they are a pretext for associations built mainly in my imagination. When I am out in nature I’m always surprised by their appearance in the most unexpected moments. When hiking I’m constantly searching for such signs.