In the process of analysis, the participants delve into the deep structures of the money complex. Together as a group, we examine money as a repression of our social dependencies and confront ourselves with the unconscious of money. In speculative exercises, we ask about the origin of money and search for new forms of coming together. Money becomes a means of therapy.

For the analysis, money is provided.

Duration: 75 min Concept & performance: Felix Falczyk and Johanna Herschel

Participation is free of charge. As the number of participants is limited, please register at mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de

The performance is a contribution to the first member exhibition at the Kunstverein Langenhagen.

In Forum Kunstkritik, we talk to a guest – usually a professional critic – about exhibitions.

Admittedly, the genre of exhibition criticism has a difficult standing, and it is not entirely innocent in this regard. Too often, their texts get lost in the pretentious jargon of press releases that are merely retold. And too rarely do they form their own opinions that could generate controversy, or even debate. But if we decouple exhibitions from the passion with which they can be argued about, all that remains of the viewer's happiness or unhappiness is a lonely sigh.

The Forum Kunstkritik is a place for debate! Three specific exhibitions are up for discussion per session. Two of them are current exhibitions from the region. In a playful form of live criticism, we delve through experience reports, accompanying texts and installation views. Always on the lookout for the better argument for what actually distinguishes good exhibitions from bad ones.

The exhibition brings together works by artists from different generations, including renowned figures from the West German art scene such as Reinhard Mucha, Sigmar Polke, and Katharina Sieverding, as well as Gerhard Richter, A.R. Penck, and Günther Uecker—all of whom were born in East Germany. These works are accompanied by new drawings by Alex Wissel and additional pieces by a young generation of Düsseldorf artists centered around Sophia Havanna Huth, Christoph Wiedemann, and Jonas Roßmeißl, who was recently honored with the Studio Award from the Hamburger Bahnhof. Artist Viola Yeşiltaç, who grew up in Langenhagen and lives in New York and Cologne, continues her longstanding connection with the Kunstverein through her contribution. A true discovery are the prints by the French conceptual artist François Joseph Chabrillat, who died far too young and whose work remains an insider’s tip. Arne Schmitt also presents parts of his classic work “Geräusch einer fernen Brandung” (“Sound of a Distant Surf”), photographed entirely in Hanover.

Steffen Zillig conceived the group exhibition in collaboration with his fellow artists Jonas Roßmeißl and Alex Wissel.

The opening will be preceded by a lecture on the epoch-making “Westkunst” exhibition (held in 1981 at the Cologne Trade Fair, curated by Kasper König and László Glózer) by Florian Waldvogel, a curator and former assistant to König, who is traveling from Innsbruck. He takes both an appreciative and critical look at the modernist ambitions and cultural-political claims to relevance of the “Westkunst” project.

Here on Earth, in Europe, in Germany, in Lower Saxony, in Langenhagen, on Langenforther Platz, there is an art association with a small garden and two large chestnut trees. This year, once again, for twelve days during summer vacation, this place will become a space for experimentation, a studio, a workshop, and a place for coming together. We invite all children, teens, and adults ages 7 and up to come together to build, play, and invent.

What kind of world would we like to invent, build, create, and explore together? What’s already here? What’s missing? What could be? What could become? Where do we start? Sew a sunshade? Make a mask? Sing a song? The kind of world we’ll bring to life at the Kunstverein is still open to discovery.

At the summer festival on August 8, you can discover it and celebrate with music, soda, and bratwurst.

When?

July 27 through August 7, 2026, daily from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

And during the summer festival on Saturday, August 8, 2026, from 3 to 8 p.m.

Who can participate?

About 15 children and teens ages 7 and up can participate each day. Feel free to register in advance at mail@kunstverein-langenhagen.de. Or drop by spontaneously and ask if there’s still space available.

Thanks to the generous support of the VGH Foundation and the Hannover Region, participation in the summer vacation program is free for children.