26th April to 25th June 2023
Astrid Busch
world in minds
In the past, the world came to the city with the ships; today, they are sealed-off areas and are only regarded as gateways to the world in spirit. With the exhibition “world in minds”, Astrid Busch transports visitors to the major ports of four cities. She artistically approaches the history and present of the ports of Hamburg, Antwerp in Belgium, Le Havre in France, and Istanbul in Turkey, as well as the pace of their shipping traffic. By linking different media and time levels, she creates a dense network of references and a variety of possible readings. She builds settings of installations and objects, photography and film, projection and works on paper, with which she examines places for their sensory perceptibility and their effect on people.
Astrid Busch studied fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art. Her works have been included in exhibitions at the Maison des Arts Solange-Baudoux in Évreux, France; the Modern Art Museum in Yerevan, Armenia; the Hetjens Museum in Düsseldorf, Germany; the Museum Kunst der Westküste on the island of Föhr, Germany; and the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany.