Willingshausen
TRACING THE PAST An Exhibition on National Socialism in the Schwalm Opening: Saturday, 17/10/2026, 4:00 p.m. Midissage: Sunday, 1/11/2026, 4:00 p.m. Finissage: Sunday, 15/11/2026, 4:00 p.m. Exhibition period: 18/10–15/11/2026 A trace is what remains when someone has gone: an imprint in the ground, a notch in the wood, a name on a gravestone. Anyone who follows a trace tries to form a picture of the past. More than eighty years after the end of National Socialism, there are hardly any people left who can speak about this period from personal experience. What remains are traces in archives, in buildings, and in cemeteries. But how do you read them when there are no eyewitnesses? Best not alone. In the first Summer School of the Kunstverein Stipendium Willingshausen, young people from the region set out together with experts in remembrance work, art, and mediation to trace the past. At the Memorial and Museum Trutzhain, the site of the former prisoner-of-war camp, they learned about its history and worked with archival materials and historical photographs, which they translated into short films. They interviewed documentary filmmaker Klaus Stern and visited the forest cemetery where inmates of the camp are buried. This resulted in texts and images for a magazine as well as the cyanotype that became the motif for the exhibition poster. Traces can also be found in places one passes every day, often unnoticed and sometimes uncomfortably. In the week before the opening, the young people follow them in their immediate surroundings in the third workshop and bring the
PHILIPPA JOCHIM - WHOEVER A SAYS The exhibition opens on Saturday, 21 November 2026 at 4:00 p.m. at Kunsthalle Willingshausen Closing event: Sunday, 20/12/2026, 12 noon We look forward to your visit! Kunsthalle Willingshausen Merzhäuser Straße 1 34628 Willingshausen Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Sunday 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
