Conversation Archive
Recorded Mae nights — artist presentations, symposiums, and the conversations that followed.
The Bodies We Invent
30 July 2026 · Ivonne Thein · Studio Visit & Symposium · Joseph Schmidt Musikschule
The body stops being something you can simply believe. Photographs once promised a surface; now clay, silicone, and trained models rewrite the same flesh until trust itself becomes a craft. The talk drifts from how an image is made to how easily a voice that already knows your tone can decide what you do next — and what of you remains when the picture can always be changed.
A View from Patience Hill
29 July 2026 · Shannon T. Lewis · Solo Show at Wentrup Gallery
Collage becomes a way of surviving distance: pieces of home pressed into a new surface until the past starts leaking into the present. Childhood rooms, craft, and the roads that carried people here still decide the shape of a face. You don’t always notice which memory is doing the looking.
Between Reality and Imagination
25 July 2026 · Franz Stein & Rosalie Werthefrongel · Courtesy of König Galerie
Reality and imagination keep trading seats until neither feels like the safer room. Painting becomes a place where fiction borrows the weight of memory, and memory starts to move like a story. What remains after the lights go out is not the argument — it’s the image that refuses to leave.
UdK Rundgang 2026
18 July 2026 · Mae at UdK · Alungoo Xatan
Migration keeps returning as a private weather. Belonging is not a place you arrive at, but a practice that holds the pieces of a life without forcing them into one clean story. What stays is quieter than identity — the histories that still decide how you see yourself, even when you pretend they don’t.