Wednesday 18.6.2025 7.00 p.m. - 10.30 p.m.
The ZAK Centre for Contemporary Art is opening a new exhibition and invites you to the vernissage on the 18th of June!
The Franco-Canadian artist duo Michelle Héon (*1948) and Gilles Morissette (*1955) are exhibiting for the first time together in Berlin installation works made from handmade paper. For their exhibition, which ZAK is showing as the second station after Kunstverein Leverkusen at Schloss Morsbroich, they have explored the themes of nature and landscape, or more precisely the island situation of both the moated castle of Morsbroich and the citadel of Spandau. Their space-related narrative scenographies thematise places and paths, but in particular content-related, historical and associative connections that come together at a specific location and in turn emanate from it.
Michelle Héon’s installations place the viewer at the centre of a poetic and dramatic story. She develops abstract water maps from paper, textiles and projections. Although these do not provide spatial orientation, they are both sensual and contemporary when questions about environmental destruction and migration are raised.
In contrast, Gilles Morissette has developed light and colourful spatial situations for the new exhibition that are reminiscent of both vegetation and water. His ‘light’ spaces, assembled from countless pieces of paper, are artistic invitations to evoke one’s own memories of sensually experienced landscapes. His own childhood in the barren prairies of Canada forms the background for his sensitive observations of a domesticated and increasingly fragile environment.
Abb.: Details Héon und Morisette, Grafik: Bernhard Rose
