Opening: July 24th, 2020 1pm - 6pm
Performance: July 24th, 2020 7pm (RSVP Only)
Duration: July 24th - August 20th, 2020
Location: Potsdamer Str. 81b

Participating artists: Leda Bourgogne, Zuzanna Czebatul, Fanny Gicquel, Nona Inescu, Julian-Jakob Kneer, Ariane Müller, Alvaro Urbano, and Tobias Spichtig

Walking in Ice is a group exhibition that explores myriad delicate and dynamic entanglements between the self and the other. The title for the exhibition inspired by a memoir written by Werner Herzog, chronicling a journey from Munich to Paris that the German filmmaker undertook by foot in 1974 to be at the side of his gravely ill friend and mentor Lotte H. Eisner. Walking for three weeks in the deep chill of winter, Herzog was convinced that this act of physical devotion might save the life of his dying friend. Working in a range of media, the artists in the exhibition all deal in different ways with questions of vanity, loneliness, and mortality; a desire for connection; empathy and attraction; a compulsion to memorialize lovers, friends, or family members; the boundaries between the self and the other; and notions of injury, disturbance, and care.

A performance by Fanny Gicquel featuring Mickey Mahar, Maria Ladopoulos, and Omagbitse Omagbemi will take place at 7pm following the public reception. The performance is by invitation only: to reserve a place, please send an email to info@xc-hua.com.

XC.Hua
Potsdamer Strasse 81b
10785 Berlin