From 24.03.2023 to 17.09.2023, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin hosts the exhibition Christina Quarles. Collapsed Time, the first institutional solo exhibition of the US painter in Germany.
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, directors of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, the exhibition shows an installation that occupies the entire exhibition space: gauze panels divide the rooms, similar to translucent theatre scrims used to reveal and obscure actors, décors, and objects. The formal language of Quarles’ paintings explores the experience of living in a racialized, queer body. Her figures contend with the boundaries of identity, as they intervene with complex patterns and planes.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual German-English publication by Silvana Editoriale, featuring a curatorial essay by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, an extended inter-view with Christina Quarles and a contribution by Jillian Hernandez, Associate Professor at the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research, University of Florida, USA.
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