Friday, September, 19. at 6 pm, with friendly weather meeting up at Zickenplatz (if it´s raining we will be at the gallery) aftershowparty c/o Crystal Ball with DJ Kollagen

The long-awaited middle part of the graphic novel series about the artist Harald Baumeister and his friends Rita, Kurt, and Ytong takes us to Berlin and Lower Saxony. Kirschner’s third collage story is a queer science fiction art novel, garnished with architectural criticism, 1980s Berlin, and the question of how to travel through time with a snow globe. With great narrative joy, a turbulent story unfolds about loss, transformation, and the healing power of lightness.
Manfred Kirschner, aka Lydia Karstadt, creates collages, paintings, and
performances – and once again immerses us in his multi-layered world of words and images. With footnotes, the author adds another layer, connecting historical city history and popular knowledge with prose. We learn a lot about Berlin, about wild art production, about friendship, and about the healing lightness that shines through in human togetherness or unfolds in the joy of the present moment. In the book, the objects are mirrored by the events: because we all encounter each other at least twice. The first time, we may not know anything about each other, and the second time, we believe we know each other inside and out—without being able to say why.

The publication was promoted with funds from VG Bildkunst/ Neustart Kultur and the author got 2023 the scholarship; Künstlerische Recherche from Berliner Senat.