A film series by Maria Eichhorn: Relocating a Structure
And a film by Sabrina Labis and Kristina Paustian
As part of Maria Eichhorn’s contribution for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2022, eight videos have been made to bring together various aspects of her Relocating a Structure exhibition for the German Pavilion at the 59th International Art Venice Biennale, 2022, in the medium of film.
Over a period of eight weeks, the films will be presented in a weekly rhythm on the website of the German Pavilion 2022. The first screening will take place on March 9, 2023, at 8pm.
The films
The film Relocating a Structure. The Pavilion conveys the concept for a temporary translocation of the pavilion, which was the starting point for Maria Eichhorn’s artistic contribution. Her reflections on the trans- and relocation of the German Pavilion were accompanied by an analysis of the specific structure of the pavilion, which consists of two buildings: the Bavarian Pavilion, built in 1909, and the Nazi extension of 1938 in its present form. In this way, Eichhorn’s artistic intervention into the very fabric of the German Pavilion and her investigations into the original structure can be accessed through the medium of film. The actress Ruth Rosenfeld reads from Maria Eichhorn’s catalog text.
The film Relocating a Structure. The Publication provides insights into the wide-ranging publication, which is a reference work on the history of both the German Pavilion and the Venice Biennale. The authors Dana Andrei, Marco Baravalle, Giulio Bobbo, Yilmaz Dziewior, Arno Löbbecke, Vittoria Martini, Anh-Linh Ngo, and Leonie Radine give performative readings of their texts, while Ruth Rosenfeld reads from Maria Eichhorn’s catalog text.
Five additional films under the title Relocating a Structure. Places of Remembrance and Resistance take visitors to sites in Venice that commemorate anti-fascist resistance activities and also the deportation of the Jewish population during the German occupation of 1943-45. The sites include the Santa Lucia train station, the Santa Maria Maggiore prison, the former tobacco factory, The Monument to the Partisan Woman, and the Jewish Ghetto. The city tours were part of the art project and took place twice a week for the duration of the Biennale, from April to November 2022. They were devised by Maria Eichhorn in cooperation with historian Giulio Bobbo of the Istituto veneziano per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea (Iveser), and accompanied by him and tour guide Luisella Romeo.
In addition to these seven films by Maria Eichhorn, an essay film directed by Sabrina Labis and Kristina Paustian has been created that links the different components of the art project and visualizes the detailed search for traces of both historical and contemporary resistance movements in Venice in all their facets. For this, excerpts were used from the overall film series together with historical and current footage.
Online screening
The films will be screened here.
March 9, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure. The Pavilion
2023, 12:05, HD, 16:9, color, sound
March 16, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure. The Publication
2023, 58:33, HD, 16:9, color, sound
March 23, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure. Places of Remembrance and Resistance, Jewish Ghetto, Ghetto Nuovo. A tour with Luisella Romeo
2023, 15:48 minutes, HD, 16:9, color, sound
March 30, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure. Places of Remembrance and Resistance, Santa Lucia Station, Santa Maria Maggiore Prison, Stazione Marittima. A tour with Giulio Bobbo
2023, 19:42 minutes, HD, 16:9, color, sound
April 6, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure. Places of Remembrance and Resistance, Santa Lucia Station, Santa Maria Maggiore Prison, Stazione Marittima. A tour with Luisella Romeo
2023, 16:35 minutes, HD, 16:9, color, sound
April 13, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure. Places of Remembrance and Resistance, Arsenale, Riva dei Sette Martiri, Monument to the Partisan Woman of Veneto (Leoncillo), Monument to Italian Military Internees and Prisoners of War, Monument to the Partisan Woman (Murer). A tour with Giulio Bobbo
2023, 27:05 minutes, HD, 16:9, color, sound
April 20, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure. Places of Remembrance and Resistance, Arsenale, Riva dei Sette Martiri, Monument to the Partisan Woman of Veneto (Leoncillo), Monument to Italian Military Internees and Prisoners of War, Monument to the Partisan Woman (Murer). A tour with Luisella Romeo
2023, 22:08 minutes, HD, 16:9, color, sound
April 27, 2023, 8pm (CET)
Relocating a Structure
2023, 30:54 minutes, HD, 16:9, color, sound
Maria Eichhorn: Relocating a Structure in the German Pavilion at the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale, 2023
Maria Eichhorn’s Relocating a Structure is part of the German contribution to the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Eichhorn’s architectural interventions from the 2022 Art Biennale will not be reversed, but actively included in the configuration of the German Pavilion for the 2023 Architecture Biennale, in dialogue with the artist. In this way, the Art Biennale and the Architecture Biennale are spatially and programmatically interwoven for the first time. The tours of sites in Venice commemorating anti-fascist resistance activities, and in remembrance of the deportation of the Jewish population during the German occupation of 1943–45, will continue for the duration of the Architecture Biennale from the end of May to the end of November 2023. The German Pavilion under the title Open for Maintenance / Wegen Umbau geöffnet is curated by ARCH+, Summacumfemmer, and Büro Juliane Greb.
The German contribution to the 59th International Venice Biennale has been realized on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office and in cooperation with ifa—Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.
Press contact, German Pavilion 2022
Leo & Wolf, Leonie Pfennig und Corinna Wolfien: T +49 175 56 76 046 / presse@leoundwolf.de
Press contact, ifa
Miriam Kahrmann, Head of communications, T +49 711 2225 105 / presse@ifa.de
