How do images make social and political realities tangible? What kind of knowledge do they convey? And how do they actively participate in shaping the realities they depict? The exhibition It’s not about nothing presents film and photographic works that employ documentary strategies to probe the limits of the visible. The featured artists lead us to a variety of settings: a Nazi fortress in the south of France or a tomato plantation in Apulia, a prefabricated housing estate in Halle or the interior of the Statue of Liberty in New York, a publishing house in Sarajevo, or a square in Bratislava.
With works from the GfZK Collection by Azra Akšamija, Éric Baudelaire, Margret Hoppe, Sharon Lockhart, Christian Nyampeta, Marcel Odenbach, Artūras Raila, Natascha Sadr Haghigh-ian, Michael Scheffer, Maya Schweizer, Shirana Shahbazi, Andrzej Steinbach and Anna Witt, along with works on loan from Clemens von Wedemeyer.