The exhibition •//🌸//• brings the works of Judith Kisner and Anna Bochkova into dialogue with one another. What connects their works is an engagement with the figure of the witch, which serves as both a formal and referential point of departure. These works take seemingly traditional notions of dangerous femininity as a starting point and relate them to ongoing structures of gender-specific oppression.
Exhibition •//🌸//•
Artists Judith Kisner and Anna Bochkova
Curator Heiko Lietz
Venue Kunstverein Gastgarten, Hamburg, Germany
Text Heiko Lietz
Photography Florent JALON
Drawing on fictional and historical narratives, as well as their own memories and imagined images, Bochkova’s and Kisner’s bodies of work explore specific associations of the witch figure with representations of nature, non-human others, mythologies, and cultural references. Through object scenes and scenographic arrangements, the exhibition outlines a space that can serve as a point of departure for multiple narratives and discourses.
Judith Kisner, Loheland Witch, 2025, wood, paper, mixed materials, 111 x 110 cmJudith Kisner, Witch 3, 2024, diverse dimensions, wood, textile, glas, paperJudith Kisner, Anna Bochkova, •//🌸//•, 2025, diverse materials, diverse dimensions, installation viewAnna Bochkova, Wind of Chains, 2025, stainless steel, lasercut, ceramics, diverse dimensionsAnna Bochkova, House of my grandmother, 2025, stainless steel, lasercut, ceramics, diverse dimensionsAnna Bochkova, Wind of Chains, 2025, stainless steel, lasercut, ceramics, diverse dimensionsAnna Bochkova, Talisman, 2025, aluminium, polymer clay, 35x25x13 cmJudith Kisner, Anna Bochkova, •//🌸//•, 2025, diverse dimensions, diverse materials, installation view