WHERE SHOULD WE GO AFTER THE LAST RUPTURE? at the Karlskirche Kassel
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WHERE SHOULD WE GO AFTER THE LAST RUPTURE? – Home as a Mobile Experience
The exhibition by Aliaa Abou Khaddour, Iman Hasbani, and Reem Yassouf transforms the Karlskirche Kassel into a sensual space for thought and experience. Installation, live performance, and experimental work with different materials combine to create an artistic exploration of what home means.
A Church Space Becomes a Landscape of Memory
The historic Karlskirche serves as the resonating space for an exhibition where presence and absence, closeness and distance, memory and change interact with one another. The church space does not appear as a static backdrop but as an atmospheric landscape whose spatial effect shapes the viewing of the works.
Colors, shapes, materials, and movements create an aesthetic experience between familiarity and irritation. The works open up spaces of perception where home is not depicted as a clearly defined place but as a mutable experience of belonging.
Installation, Performance, and Experimental Materials
The three artists combine different forms of expression in contemporary art. Installative elements enter into a dialogue with live performance and experimental material processes. This creates a lively structure that is understood not only through individual objects but through movement, atmosphere, and the relationship between body, space, and memory.
The exhibition thus exists within an art practice that transcends boundaries between fine arts, performance, and spatial staging. The audience encounters not a closed narrative but an open artistic situation that activates personal memories and questions.
Aliaa Abou Khaddour: Drawing, Text, and Installation
Aliaa Abou Khaddour was born in 1978 in Damascus and has lived in Kassel since 2012. She studied interior architecture at the University of Damascus, worked there as a lecturer in interior design and art history, and later engaged with art history at the University of Oldenburg. Her artistic practice encompasses drawing, text, and installation.
As an art educator, she was involved in the context of documenta among other things. Her works have been presented in museums, biennials, cultural projects, and publications. In 2025, she received the Kassel Art Prize from the Dr. Wolfgang Zippel Foundation. In her work, societal themes, memory spaces, and a precise engagement with imagery and cultural identity come together.
Cultural Education through Open Viewing of Works
The exhibition invites concentrated viewing of the works while simultaneously opening access to questions of cultural identity. Visitors can read the artworks from different perspectives: as material traces, as performative actions, and as signs of personal and collective memory.
Guided tours deepen the access to the exhibition on Tuesday, November 3, Friday, November 6, Wednesday, November 11, and Friday, November 13, 2026, each from 5:30 PM to 6:00 PM. This brief, focused form of mediation creates space for questions and immediate exchange about the artistic positions.
Exhibition Atmosphere and Art Experience
The Karlskirche develops a special acoustic and spatial presence as an exhibition venue. Between sacred architecture and contemporary installation, a tension field arises in which the theme of home becomes physically tangible. Light, space, material, and movement combine to create an exhibition situation that transcends purely visual perception.
The art experience is directed at all who understand contemporary art as a space for reflection and encounter. The exhibition makes visible that home arises less from unchangeable borders than from relationships, memories, and ongoing re-location.
Conclusion: An Exhibition About Belonging and Change
WHERE SHOULD WE GO AFTER THE LAST RUPTURE? opens an urgent aesthetic experience about home, identity, and the traces of change. The combination of installation, live performance, and experimental art makes the visit a concentrated encounter with current questions of our present. Those who want to experience contemporary art in an atmospheric church space and expand their own notion of belonging should visit this exhibition live.
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