---
title: "The black (w)hole, and what it means to me"
date: 2021-09-20
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/the-black-whole-and-what-it-means-to-me-kara-walker-2021-context-en/"
description: "Kara Walker’s very personal introduction to her exhibition, which opens at the SCHIRN in October. With over 650 drawings, snippets, notes, fragments, and writings, the  artist is showing her private archive for the first time."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/header_Kara_Walker_portrait_Foto_Ari_Marcopoulos.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The black (w)hole, and what it means to me