Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca

January 29 – April 26, 202601/29 – 04/26/2026

The SCHIRN presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition by the artist duo in Germany with a specially developed new production. This video installation examines the hardcore scene and especially Straight Edge (“sXe” for short), a culture which arose on the East Coast of the United States as a “clean” counterculture within the post-hardcore-punk scene of the 1980s.

  • Supported by

    The German Federal Cultural Foundation

  • Supported by

    Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)

  • Additional support by

    SCHIRN ZEITGENOSSEN

  • Straight Edge concert
    © The Band Spiral at Oettinger Villa, Darmstadt, 2024, Photo: Josi Hoffmann
  • Straight Edge concert
    © The Band Spiral at Oettinger Villa, Darmstadt, 2024, Photo: Josi Hoffmann
  • Straight Edge concert
    © The Band Spiral at Oettinger Villa, Darmstadt, 2024, Photo: Josi Hoffmann