Harte Zeiten – Ciężkie Czasy

Simone Rueß (2021). de-re-konstrukt – "Lass uns von vorne beginnen...", pp. 98-107

Meeting on the Warsaw–Berlin Express Train

The action Meeting on the Warsaw– Berlin Express Train of 14 December 2019 speaks about both the personal relationship between Simone Rueß and Krzysztof Franaszek and, more broadly, the relationship between Poland and Germany. The artists boarded trains departing respectively from Warsaw and Berlin at 5:36 in the morning and travelled towards each other. Their joint journey started in Poznań. The train car turned into a place of encounter along the line joining two points, always moving towards one of them. Whenever the artists became disorientated, they would record their experience in the two languages.

Ballonartige Membran

'Granica' - Meeting on the Warsaw–Berlin Express Train

‘Meeting on the Warsaw–Berlin Express Train, 14.12.2019’, action in the frame of de-re-konstrukt, note card "border"

'Grenze' - Meeting on the Warsaw–Berlin Express Train

‘Meeting on the Warsaw–Berlin Express Train, 14.12.2019’, action in the frame of de-re-konstrukt, note card "border"

Meeting on the Warsaw–Berlin Express Train

‘Meeting on the Warsaw–Berlin Express Train, 14.12.2019’, action in the frame of de-re-konstrukt, installation view at Le Guern Gallery 2021, photo by Adam Gut

Auswanderung, Umsiedlung, Flucht (K. H. Stauffer)

Innerdeutsche Grenze (K. H. Stauffer)

"Da hat Gott mich hingestellt" (K. H. Stauffer)

Verfaulte Pfirsiche (K. H. Stauffer)

Küchentisch: da passierte viel! (K. H. Stauffer)