{"id":61012,"date":"2026-10-07T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/deep-dive\/in-a-silent-way-episode-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:35:49","slug":"in-a-silent-way-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"exhibition-deepening","link":"https:\/\/www.schirn.de\/en\/deep-dive\/in-a-silent-way-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Silent Way (Episode 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text-und-bild toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/header-text-und-bild-option-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-side-1 cf-gutter-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-5'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5 position-fixed'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 header-text-und-bild-text-area'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-5'>\n<h4 class='ho-sd-h1' style=\"white-space: normal;\">In A Silent Way (Episode 2)<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-h3'>A group exhibition in multiple episodes<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row padding-top-4 ho-pattern-optional-button padding-bottom-4'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='wp-block-ho-buttons wp-block-ho-buttons'>\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-buttons-item\">\n\t<a href=\"\"  target=\"\" role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ho-button is-primary\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"ho-button-label \">Lorem Ipsum<\/span>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-1'>\n<div class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-flash \" style=\"\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flash-animation-data\" data-animations='[{\"id\":\"full\",\"name\":\"Full\",\"types\":[{\"name\":\"y\",\"start\":\"-15\",\"end\":\"15\"}]},{\"id\":\"in\",\"name\":\"In\",\"types\":[]},{\"id\":\"out\",\"name\":\"Out\",\"types\":[]}]' data-target=\".lazy-media-contents\" data-animationsmobile='[{\"id\":\"full\",\"name\":\"Full\",\"types\":[{\"name\":\"y\",\"start\":\"-15\",\"end\":\"15\"}]},{\"id\":\"in\",\"name\":\"In\",\"types\":[]},{\"id\":\"out\",\"name\":\"Out\",\"types\":[]}]'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<flash-animation inline-template>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"flash-animation\" :class=\"classes\" ref=\"layer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<div  class='header-text-und-bild-image-area'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline  lazy-background-fill\" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_FPeCjW\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 60882,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-300x216.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":216,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":24285},\"large\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-1024x737.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":737,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":267987},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-768x553.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":553,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":148383},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-1536x1106.jpg\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":1106,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":620047},\"small\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-440x317.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":317,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":49440},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-580x418.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":418,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":84938},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-720x518.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":518,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":130602},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-1280x922.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":922,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":428485},\"full\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1-1920x1382.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1382,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":956516},\"original\":{\"file\":\"IASW-Episode-2-Email-Header-1.jpg\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1440}},\n\"alt\" : \"Birds fly between surreal objects in shades of blue, with a glittering background and curved ropes.\",\n\"path\" : \"https:\\\/\\\/schirn.b-cdn.net\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:72%; 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The site-specific installations question their place in the world and address their dependence on natural processes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline toggle-optional-button' data-pattern='ho\/text-option-headline-button'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='padding-bottom-4'>\n<h2 class='ho-sd-h3' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Fall &#038; Winter 2026 with Denise Mawila, Paul Spengemann and Ian Waelder<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-md-6 col-xs-12'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>The days are getting shorter, the wind roams around homes, and food for animals is becoming scarce: In the second episode of IN A SILENT WAY, the sculpture garden in the outdoor area will be expanded to include works by Denise Mawila, Paul Spengemann, and Ian Waelder. The works respond to the changing conditions of the dark and rather barren season. Once the sun sets, a creature appears on the north fa\u00e7ade via a laser projection. In several locations around the Dondorf printing works, there are also birdseed-stuffed noses, which disappear over time. An installation made of tinsel, weathered by the elements, evokes a moment\u2019s fleeting nature.<br><br><strong>Denise Mawila<br>Prise (2000\/2026)<\/strong><br><br>Denise Mawila combines an awareness of form, and beauty with a sense of the fragility of the moment and a dash of anti-spectacle. Her works bear witness to the decay of elegance. As she ostensibly plays with beauty, the artist considers how everyday phenomena shape our perception. A new iteration of an idea more than twenty-five years old, Prise transforms public space into a site of encounter and joy \u2013 following in the spirit of relational aesthetics, which understands art as staging a social exchange between people. Mawila originally developed the minimalist sculpture, made from tinsel, with a fellow student at the HfG Offenbach. The notion use of readymades \u2013 industrially manufactured everyday objects \u2013 has since become a constant in the artist\u2019s works, reflecting her interest in the rearrangement of existing objects and their relationships. The curtain\u2019s mirrored strips, in constant motion and flux owing to the effects of light and wind, are exposed to the weather, which \u201cmarks\u201d the curtain over time. Curtains like these are often seen in temporary settings like stage sets, parties, or storefront displays. As if announcing a celebration or else serving as its remnant, &#8220;Prise&#8221;\u2019s shimmering material is deliberately arranged by Mawila in public \u201cnon-places,\u201d such as here next to the parking lot on the north side of the Dondorf printing works. A celebration could hardly have occurred in a more inappropriate place. <br><br>Denise Mawila studied stage design, film, and art at the Offenbach University of Art and Design (HfG) and the St\u00e4delschule in Frankfurt. Her artistic practice combines installation, film, drawing, performance, and dance with interdisciplinary research and participatory educational programs. She is a cofounder of freitagsk\u00fcche, an initiative that brings together cooking, art, and social exchange. Mawila has worked as an instructor in cultural education and outreach in the fields of movement, dance, and perception. In collaboration with the Deutsches Tanzarchiv in Cologne and the MAECENIA Stiftung f\u00fcr Frauen in Wissenschaft und Kunst, she initiated the Waltraud Luley Dance Archive, a project dedicated to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt-based dance educator.<br><br><strong>Paul Spengemann<br>spin jump crawl climb dream bite hunt (ongoing since 2024)<\/strong><br><br>On long dark nights, a creature weaving webs appears on the SCHIRN\u2019s north facade. Its shape constantly morphs: At times it clings tightly to a thread as it lowers itself down, then it stretches out lengthwise, as though searching for a foothold. Out of fine white lines, it forms spiderwebs that transform into grotesque faces, or the shapes of letters and words that remain largely incomprehensible. Time and again the threads snap, and it has to start all over. Paul Spengemann uses lasers as a tool for exploring spaces and telling stories. &#8220;spin jump crawl climb dream bite hunt&#8221; revolves around the world of a spider-like creature. It not only crawls, climbs, jumps, and hunts, but also dreams and expresses fears and desires. With the help of its threads, it shares emotional experiences with the audience as it tries to form a connection. The repeatedly failed attempts at communication and the ambivalent soundtrack create an underlying mood of melancholia, which sometimes veers toward the unsettling. Could the creature actually be lying in ambush, luring in prey with its illusions? They might easily become entangled in the sticky webs. Occasionally the English word \u201cgobble\u201d can be discerned, which means, among other things, \u201cto devour.\u201d What is this figure really searching for\u2014community, support, food? The work envisions a world in which secure connections no longer hold. It conveys a sense of alienation in an environment governed by particular rules. In an idiosyncratic, quiet, and delicate way, Spengemann thus crafts a narrative that hovers between suggestion and narration, leaving it up to the audience to fill in the gaps.<br><br>Paul Spengemann is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores various image-making processes, particularly in the realm of moving images. He examines not only their technical possibilities but also how they trace the world or create visual realities. He often uses the virtual as a tool for visibility and participation, such as when a laser show is projected onto a building. Spengemann\u2019s works have been shown in numerous exhibitions and at film festivals around the world, including LOOP Barcelona, the S\u00e3o Paulo International Film Festival, the Goethe-Institut in Mexico City, Villa Massimo in Rome, the Vienna Art Foundation, the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, the Dortmunder Kunstverein, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the 66th Berlinale in Berlin.<br><br>With support by SOUND FOR FRIENDS GmbH<br><br><strong>Ian Waelder<br>Self-Portrait As My Father\u2019s Nose (2025\/26)<\/strong><br><br>What traces do we leave behind? How reliable is our memory? Ian Waelder\u2019s facade sculptures can be found at several locations around the Dondorf printing works. They are based on a clay sculpture modeled after the nose of the artist\u2019s father, Juan Waelder, depicting what the artist deems the \u201cWaelder Nose.\u201d It is an ironic self-portrait that will gradually disintegrate over time. The papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 works, studded with birdseed, are subject to destruction caused by birds and the elements. Referencing the 1969 sculpture &#8220;P.O.TH.A.A.VFB (Portrait of the Artist as a Vogelfutterb\u00fcste [Birdseed Bust])&#8221; by Swiss artist Dieter Roth, they convey an anti-monumental gesture: Rather than treated as something stable and unchanging, memory here is constantly exposed to external attacks and forgetting. The birds, after all, are no harmless bystanders. Instead, through their aggressive assault and destructiveness, they evoke Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s famous film. In a formal language that embraces brittleness and fragility, Waelder creates artistic reflections on biography, memory, and remembrance. In 2017, the artist became the first member of his family to return to Germany. His grandfather, Friedrich W\u00e4lder, fled from a concentration camp near Stuttgart to Chile in 1939, where he went by the name Federico Waelder. He was his family\u2019s sole survivor. His grandson never met him and knows him only through historical, material traces, such as cassette recordings of piano music, his grandfather\u2019s Opel car\u2014and, indeed, his father\u2019s nose. &#8220;Self-Portrait As My Father\u2019s Nose&#8221; thus confronts the viewer with a historically charged motif. The stereotype of the \u201cJewish nose\u201d is a central part of a long history of antisemitic depictions. Waelder deliberately takes up this physical feature that, due to its racist instrumentalization, is typically avoided, adding a personal reference to it.<br><br>Ian Waelder (b. 1993, Madrid) lives and works between Mallorca and Frankfurt am Main, where he completed his studies in fine arts under Haegue Yang at the St\u00e4delschule in 2023. His most recent solo exhibitions include the gallery Modern Art, London; GAK Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Aktuelle Kunst Bremen; Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover; and Es Baluard Museu d\u2019Art Contemporani, Palma. Waelder\u2019s work has also been included in group exhibitions at venues including the Kunsthalle Wien, Museu T\u00e0pies in Barcelona, the Delfina Foundation in London, the nsdoku in Munich, the ifa Gallery in Berlin, and Francis Irv, New York. He has participated in artist-in-residence programs including IASPIS in Malm\u00f6, the Laurenz-Haus Foundation in Basel, and WIELS in Brussels. 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