When does the exhibition start?

The exhibition starts on September 1, 2026, with the opening at 7 PM.

How long will Break Up. No place to sit and talk run?

The installation can be seen from September 1, 2026, until November 24, 2026.

Where is the exhibition taking place?

At the Künstlerverein Malkasten, in the showcase at Hentrichhaus, Jacobistraße 6a in Düsseldorf.

Is the exhibition indoors?

Yes, the presentation takes place inside the building of the Künstlerverein Malkasten.

Is there information about guided tours?

Individual guided tours are possible upon request. The contact address of Malkasten is info@malkasten.org.

What is the admission fee?

No ticket price has been announced for this exhibition. Admission information will follow if the organizer adds details.

Anna Möller transforms Malkasten into a mirror cabinet of bodies and spaces

Name: Anna Möller: Break Up. No place to sit and talk.
Start: 2026-09-01T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-11-24T12:00:00+01:00
Location: Künstlerverein Malkasten

Between Mirror, Skin, and Space: Anna Möller at Malkasten

With Break Up. No place to sit and talk., the artist association Malkasten presents an installation that immediately captivates the gaze: reflections, fragmentations, and bodily material traces transform the showcase in the Hentrichhaus into a place of intense artwork contemplation. The exhibition opens on September 1, 2026 and will be on view until November 24, 2026.

An Art Experience in Dialogue with Architecture and Perception Regimes

Anna Möller here works with a precise, installative visual language. Fragments of bodies, smooth surfaces, and inscribed traces of use enter into a tension-filled relationship of inside and outside. The showcase becomes a display case of discomfort, a space of aesthetic experience where distance, closeness, and self-perception are reorganized.

Materiality as a Repository of Memory

The fabric objects used visibly carry their history within. Passed-down down comforters, seams, threads, glass plates, and hardeners form a sculptural language that oscillates between softness and hardness, intimacy and industrial coldness. The material is not merely a carrier but becomes a statement about bodies, vulnerability, and repression. Thus, a work unfolds that appears simultaneously corporeal, poetic, and art-historically reflective.

Female-Reading Body as a Contested Space

Content-wise, Möller focuses on the appropriation, discipline, and fragmentation of the female-reading body. The installation links individual experience with societal power relations and opens a discourse that points far beyond the exhibition. Identity appears here not as a fixed form but as a process of fractures, overlays, and absences.

Malkasten as a Historic Exhibition Space

The artist association Malkasten has been connecting history and present since 1848 and regularly presents site-specific exhibitions in the Hentrichhaus, Jacobihaus, and Malkastenforum. For this presentation, the location in the showcase of the Hentrichhaus is particularly fitting because the architecture itself becomes part of the perception. Those seeking art as a concentrated, thoughtful, and at the same time sensory art experience will find a precisely curated place here.

Conclusion

Break Up. No place to sit and talk. promises an exhibition between sculpture, installation, and critical contemporary art. Anyone interested in contemporary art, material aesthetics, and body-related visual spaces should experience this presentation live at Malkasten. Particularly on-site, reflections, scale, and surface unfold their full effect.