Homeofficemoins – Insights through disposable cameras
How do you define a household when home is the street?
An exhibition by Stigma eV
Duration of the exhibition: 13.01. – 10.02.2024
Exhibition opening on Friday, January 12.01.2024, 19, at XNUMX p.m
The photographs of the three artists CopyHope, Franky and Guido, who have their center of life in the public space of the city of Osnabrück, are on display.
Started during the pandemic in spring 2021 Stigma eV the project “Insights through Disposable Cameras”, in which the participating artists were provided with disposable cameras via the SKM (Caritas) and the Café Connection (Diakonie) - with the request to capture impressions from their everyday lives. While many people retreated to their homes during times of contact restrictions and lockdowns, homeless people once again became invisible. The effects of the corona pandemic on homeless people were very diverse - from loss of income opportunities and fear of infection to limited offers of help and uncertainty regarding the very quickly changing regulations. Almost everyone felt increasingly isolated.
The exhibition contrasts the two realities of life “home office” and “homeless” and at the same time draws connecting lines between the realities.
“Impressive, individual, artistic insights into the everyday life of the artists were created,” says Paul Lücke, managing director of Stigma eV
Photo: Copy Hope
Click here for the NOZ article by Tom Bullmann “During the pandemic: Kunstraum shows photos of everyday life on the street” (26.01.2024)
Events
exhibition opening "Homeofficemoins"
Friday, December 12.01st, 19 p.m
Alternative city tour
Thursday, June 18.01th, 17 p.m
As part of the exhibition, the SKM and the Diakonie street workers are offering an alternative city tour that invites you to change your perspective. The tour starts at 17 p.m. at the art space hase29. To register at stigma.ev@gmail.com is asked.
Reading with Dominik Bloh “Under Steel Palms: The Story of a Street Boy”
Friday, December 19.01st, 19 p.m
Dominik Bloh was still a teenager when his story began on the streets of Hamburg. His childhood was marked by lies, violence and drugs. At 15, gangsters are his idols, at 16 his mentally ill mother throws him out of the apartment. This is followed by a free fall into homelessness: not knowing where to go, constantly being on the move, hunger, cold and loneliness. Despite everything, he tries to maintain a level of normality. Between school, hip-hop, the basketball court and the fight for survival on the street.
In the Spiegel bestseller “Under Steel Palms: The Story of a Street Boy,” Dominik Bloh tells his life story and how one manages to fight one’s way up from “the bottom” with courage and courage.
You can find more information here.
Musical evening
Saturday, February 27.01th, 17 p.m
with artists from public spaces
Goals and backgrounds
With the exhibition and the accompanying events, Stigma eV would like to bring social stigmatization - in this case homelessness - into the public eye and give people a voice, in accordance with its association goal. who receive this far too rarely or whose perspective is not perceived as equal. With the perspectives from public space im art room hase29 dhe first event of the annual theme "Invisibility – shadow of the visible” . held
Excerpts from the works shown were already in spring 2023 Pop-up district displayed. “Insights through disposable cameras” was funded by the Osnabrück Community Foundation. The exhibition in the art space hase29 is made possible by funding from the Osnabrück Community Foundation, the Culture Department of the City of Osnabrück and the Osnabrück Regional Association. In addition to the art space hase29, cooperation partners include the artist Eva Lause as curator, the Osnabrück volunteer agency, the Café Connection of the Diakonisches Werk Osnabrück City and District, the SKM - kath. Association for Social Services in Osnabrück eV, the street newspaper Offside and youth welfare Don Bosco.
If you would like to donate to Stigma eV for the work on the exhibition and other projects, please contact us at stigma.ev@gmail.com or use the donation box in the exhibition rooms.
