Exhibition Catalogue | English, German, Turkish
This catalogue was published within the context of the exhibition titled Haymatlos by Karin Kneffel held at Dirimart in 13 November 2020–17 January 2021. Kneffel’s nineteen paintings that generate a dialogue between Germany and Turkey through the concept of ‘heimatlos’, statelessness, pry about the past to reveal how remembering penetrates its foreignness by transforming it, leaving peculiar traces or by adding and removing elements from it. The trilingual catalogue presents Kneffel’s paintings accompanied by a text by Julia Voss as well as studio and installation views.
The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue features nineteen paintings of Kneffel, that carry traces of the works of three heimatlos who lived in Istanbul: Bruno Taut (1880–1938), Rudolf Belling (1886–1972) and Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000). Kneffel depicts the iconic house Taut built on a hill overlooking the Bosphorus; Belling’s monumental Inonu sculpture of the 1940s and his sculpture titled Skulptur 49 (In Memoriam Dreiklang) dated 1949; first of the kitchens designed by Schütte-Lihotzky, Frankfurter Küche, under the veil of her drops of water, bubbles and red brush strokes. They all pose the same question: is this world a foreign place?
