talia chetrit: love, maybe – intimacy and desire in contemporary art

The exhibition Love, Maybe – Intimacy and Desire in Contemporary Art, curated by Dr Jana Johanna Haeckel is dedicated to the possibilities and challenges of depicting love in contemporary art. What ideas and prejudices shape our understanding of love and intimacy? Which images are missing from collective memory, especially with regard to empathic forms of togetherness? Inspired by the eponymous poem by Afro-American writer Audre Lorde, Love, Maybe is dedicated to the possibilities and challenges of depicting love in contemporary art.

The group exhibition shows around 240 photographs, multimedia installations and five large contemporary sculptures using the medium of glass by 24 international artists from 13 different countries. The exhibition is divided into four chapters, whose colourful staging is based on the feeling of closeness and security and which address intimacy, regimes of the gaze, care and queerness. Using a QR code on selected works, visitors are invited to listen to the voices of the artists talking about their work.