Image credits: THE ZONE OF INTEREST | BD | LEONINE Studios
“Die Menschen sind im ganzen Leben blind”
“Lifelong, all you men are blind”(Goethe, Faust II, Midnight)
Gökçen Dilek Acay, Amer Al Akel, Anna Bittersohl, Madeleine Dietz, Martin Albrecht Fulton, Maria Kassab, Kathrin Köster, Claudia Mann, Warren Neidich, Viktor Petrov, Katja Pudor, Andreas Schmid, Sten Saarits, Nicole Wendel
curated by Almut Hüfler, Katja Pudor, Andreas Schmid
Curators’ Tour
Sat 8 Nov at 3pm
Guided tour with Almut Hüfler, Katja Pudor, and Andreas Schmid
An in-depth insight into the curatorial concept of the exhibition and the background to the exhibited works and artists (in German).
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Vernissage
Fri 17 Oct 5 – 9 pm
Opening hours
18 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
Wed – Sat 2 – 6 pm
and by personal appointmentc
losed on public holidays
Finissage
Fri 21 Nov 5 – 8 pm
(scroll for full programme)
Location
frontviews at HAUNT
Kluckstraße 23 A Yard
D – 10785 Berlin
Social Media
IG @frontviews_
@haunt_berlin
Public Transport
Bus Linie M48 or M85 from Potsdamer Platz/Busstop
Lützowstr./Potsdamer Str. and a 4 minute walk // U-Bahn
Kurfürstenstraße Linie U1 and U3 and a 6 minute walk // M29 Busstop Gedenkstätte Dt. Widerstand and a 2-minute walk.
This project is profoundly supported by Senate Departement for Culture and Social Cohesion. It´s also made possible with the initiative of the whole collective.
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Programme
Vernissage
Fri 17 Oct 5 – 9 pm
with Drawing Performance at 6pm
When there is Nothing I
by Katja Pudor and Nicole Wendel
Artist Talk
Sat 18 Oct at 4pm
From Eco-Agnosia to Ecologies of Relation: Warren Neidich, Claudia Mann in conversation about our choices in times of polycrisis.
Moderated by Dr. Almut Hüfler
(in English)
Workshop
Sat 1 Nov 4 – 6 pm
Reconnecting with Self and World. A Guided Buddhist Meditation with Tenzin Peljor.
Donation-based (recommended €10 – €20)
Drawing-Performance
Fri 7 Nov at 5pm
When there is Nothing II
by Katja Pudor and Nicole Wendel
Curators’ Tour
Sat 8 Nov at 3pm
Guided tour with Almut Hüfler, Katja Pudor, and Andreas Schmid
An in-depth insight into the curatorial concept of the exhibition and the background to the exhibited works and artists (in German).
Finissage
Sat 21 Nov 5 – 8 pm
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With the words “Lifelong, all you men are blind / Now, Faust, be so to the end!”, the personification of Care causes the protagonist to go blind at the end of Goethe’s two-part tragedy. Up to this point, Faust – accompanied by Mephisto – had developed into an embodiment of modern capitalist man, who pursues his vision of the good life regardless of the consequences. In his constant “march forward,” he wants nothing to do with care. He cannot recognize his blindness as such and interprets the sound of his gravediggers as work on his large-scale construction project.
The scene can be seen as a parable about a phenomenon that had already been the subject of tragedies in ancient times as a motif of blindness. As a symbol of loss of reality and self-deception, blindness has apparently lost little of its relevance in the nearly two hundred years since “Faust.” Rather, in the film The Zone of Interest (2023), it takes on the form of an emotional blindness in the shape of a privacy wall surrounding the idyllic garden of concentration camp guard Rudolf Höß and his family. According to director Jonathan Glazer, this scene may rightfully be understood as a metaphor for current events.
For the group exhibition “Die Menschen sind im ganzen Leben blind / Lifelong, all you men are blind”, the curatorial team (Almut Hüfler, Katja Pudor, and Andreas Schmid) invited fourteen international artists to explore the questions raised by these forms of blindness in our present day and their possible counterstrategies: Where and under what conditions do fragmentation of reality and loss of reality manifest themselves, and how can access to reality be restored, how can care and concern be allowed again?
Using a variety of different media (painting, drawing, sculpture, video, site-specific installation, performance), a walk-in discourse emerges in which, against the backdrop of a psychological phenomenon, fundamental questions are asked about our relationship to nature, our perception of time, our relationship to history and to our fellow human beings.
