Selected Works: Exhibitions & Performances
Fluchtpunkt Hanoi
by Thomas Gaschler, Marina Ludemann, Nina DeLudemann, Ottjörg A.C.Room installation with simultaneous video projections (30 min).
April 2025 at roam projects e.V., Berlin
Mai-July 2026 at Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald at Altes Schlachthaus Mosbach
F l u c h t p u n k t H a n o i is the result of several years of artistic research into family histories and the legacies of colonialism in Indochina. Starting from the life of my grandmother, a French-Vietnamese métisse who was forced to flee Hanoi and returned only at the age of eighty, the exhibition explores questions of belonging, internalized racism, and forms of transnational solidarity. Through personal narratives, it reflects on how colonial histories continue to shape identities, relationships, and the ways people encounter one another across generations.
lœgo jogo
April 2025
performance workshop at AFLUENTES: international festival, and NAI's 10th anniversary
NAI: Núcleo de arte impressa is the research group in printmaking at UFRGS Federal University of Porto Alegre
Tchau, Cháo
Scenic reading by&with Marina Ludemann, Nina DeLudemann, Sven Rausch
March 2024 at Frankfurt LAB
September 2024 at International Women's Theater Festival Frankfurt
tchau, chào (pronouncedʧaʊ,ʧaʊ) describes the irreconcilable discrepancy between a mother, her Brasilian daughter, their Vietnamese grandmothers and the places and generations that lie between them. The woman in Germany without breasts is a fictitious character that sprung from our real-life imagination. In letters to her, we embark on a journey to places of familiar foreignness.As daughters, mothers and people, we approach questions of displacement, flight and resettlement and inquire what marks they leave over the course of generations.Can we become Amazons to face our inherited illnesses and traumas; and if so, can we still resist to be involved in wars we do not want to fight in? Supported by Hessische Theaterakademie
Trailer and full-length documentary upon request.
Glasnost(algie)
April-June 2023
Research on the materiality of glass and its unifying properties across Guarani Mbya language and traditions, and seed bead factories in the Czech Republic.
Sensory characteristics and political relations are intertwined as jewelry.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner forCulture and the Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR.
material: glass beads and paper pearls
apprx. 12x5 cm
Gestures of Horizon
May 2023 at MdbK, Leipzig
We searched for materials that are cluttering the Atacama region, to bring back to sight what is hidden underneath them. Clearing the view for a future in which desolate emptiness might once again return to the deserts of Nasca and Atacama.
Not a small task to accomplish. But by re-functioning tools and materials, we employ them in the reconstruction, of what they once destroyed.
The project was realized within the context of a process grant from the Fonds Darstellende Künstee.V.. The composition was supported by grants from the city of Leipzig and GEMA
Project texts, and research documentation:
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"at this moment I am in the process of playing theater for myself. I know very well that I don't want to do anything:" (J.P. Sartre)
Following the death of a friend who died in political exile during the Year of the Rat, the performance explores grief through shared acts of participation and material transformation. Visitors are invited to pause, learn to fold origami, reflect on their own experiences of loss, and take away a small paper rat as part of the work. This project marks the beginning of my interest in waiting as a condition of displacement. It was the first time I approached waiting not as passive duration, but as potential of negotiating space and relationships. It also initiated my ongoing exploration of material transformation, treating everyday objects as carriers of evolving memories and narratives that change as they are given a second life and circulate between people.
Oktober 2020: Proposals for the Circumstances, Festival at KiZ Gießen
July 2021: Times Art Center Berlin
August 2021: Landungsbrücken Frankfurt
September 2021: Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
#replaingdisplace
hybrid long durational intervention
MA graduation work, shown during the UdK event KUNST RAUM STADT (16.+17.07.2020)
The spaces collected in this archive share a sustainable approach to urbanity: instead of displacing what is found, they take on spaces that may initially appear to be disfunctional for the intended use: a theatre in which the lines of sight are limited by columns or ceilings that are too low; a museum within rough and obtruding walls, a garden that is supposed to thrive on asphalt ...
Exhibition at Uni.T Berlin, July 2020
Limited edition postcards of the exhibition, front and back
WITH-DRAWN
Intervention on Berliner Platz, Gießen September 2020
by Paula Erb, Christian Förnzler, Jonas Harksen and Nina DeLudemann
as part of the festival Gießener Auftritte, kindly supported by Stadttheater Gießen with funds of „Ins Freie“ a program carried by the Hessian ministery for arts and sciences and Diehl+Ritter/Berlin
Andorra
Intervention and Installation
in a desastrous political landscape, the staging of Andorra is a scream against the censorship and silencing that
continues to threaten and take lives in Brazil.
Resulting from a workshop with students from UFRGS, Federal University of Porto Alegre, the street performance was presented at Goethe Institut Porto Alegre on August 16th, 2018
After the presentation, the performance set remained as a publicly accessible installation for two weeks.
August 2018 at Goethe Institut Porto Alegre
