Latefa Wiersch

The exhibition by Latefa Wiersch evolves around  the Hannibal II housing estate in Dortmund Dorstfeld where the artist grew up in the 1980s/90s. Its architecture is not only the scenery to her stop­motion film Original Features, but also  becomes the spatious backdrop for roughly sewn, textile dolls in the exhibition space. In narrative arrangements, the dolls reflect post­migrant identities: uncanny doppelgangers of the artist and her social environment, they are at the same time new beings with familiar attributes from pop culture and diverse references to contemporary history. 

Latefa Wiersch’s new performance that will take place in April, will activate the exhibition’s Hannibal architecture as a protective and threatening colossus, blurring the line between human bodies and textile dolls. The performance is part of the Dortmund Goes Black 2025 festival.

Latefa Wiersch (*1982 in Dortmund, lives in Zurich) works with sculpture, moving image and  performance. She was a fellow at the Swiss Institute New York (2024) and has been awarded  the Swiss Art Award (2023) as well as the Swiss  Performance Award (2022). The exhibition shows her work for the first time as part of an institutional solo exhibition in Germany.

Curated by Rebekka Seubert

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