The Book of Wannsee
Chapter 1: Storm
Hinda Weiss
Exhibition at Wannsee Contemporary, curated by Avi Feldman
06.09.2025 – 20.12.2025
The exhibition The Book of Wannsee: Chapter One: Storm presents a new body of works by New York–based artist Hinda Weiss, developed during her residency on the island of Schwanenwerder in the summer of 2025. Through photography and video, Weiss probes the layered histories of Wannsee and its surrounding landscapes, weaving together the outlandish combination of past and present violence and leisure.
Weiss’s lens is attuned to thresholds: between lake and land; antiquity and fabrication; visibility and disappearance. Storms—both literal and metaphorical—form the structuring motif of this first chapter. In her images, skies sweep over waters, boats, trees, and architectural remnants. The storm becomes a figure for history itself: sudden, brutal and a constant reminder of life's fragility.
Situated in a place marked by beauty and destruction, Weiss’s work resists monumentalization. Instead, her practice draws viewers into an intimate gaze that acknowledges the undercurrents of power and danger embedded in the Wannsee landscape. She reanimates fragments of the everyday as she charges them with new meanings. In doing so, Weiss suggests that the past is never fully settled but
continuously shapes what is yet to come.
Installation images: Wannsee Contemporary / Jens Ziehe
https://www.monopol-magazin.de/positions-berlin-bitte-die-kuenstlerin-nicht-fuettern
