SOFT ARCHIVES
Soft Archives explores how memory takes shape through visual, material, and bodily processes—and how it constantly shifts and changes. Memory is not understood as a fixed archive, but as something fragile, repeatedly overwritten and reassembled.
Photography lies at the center of the exhibition. It is approached in an open, experimental way: as a sketch, as material, as a filmic fragment, or as an archival trace. Rather than documenting, photography functions as a medium of memory itself, holding fleeting moments while allowing new meanings to emerge.
These works by emerging artists treat memory as an open process. Images become traces of experience that preserve, alter, and reconnect memory.
Soft Archives asks how visual fragments carry memory and shape our perception of reality. The exhibition is conceived as a space in which memory remains in motion.
A project by studierendenWERK BERLIN, supervised by Claudia Brieske & curated by Isa Zappe.
works by_
| Bela Böttcher | Sophia Hallmann | Merle Hermanns | Angelina Kalachenkova | Milena Kwiatkowski | Hanna Laurisch |
| Paula Schierholt | Ina Schürmann | Margaux Vardon | Sarah Wilhelm | Lorenz Willkomm |
exhibited works_
The Third Place / Contemporary Paintings
SOFT ARCHIVES
Soft Archives explores how memory takes shape through visual, material, and bodily processes—and how it constantly shifts and changes. Memory is not understood as a fixed archive, but as something fragile, repeatedly overwritten and reassembled.
Photography lies at the center of the exhibition. It is approached in an open, experimental way: as a sketch, as material, as a filmic fragment, or as an archival trace. Rather than documenting, photography functions as a medium of memory itself, holding fleeting moments while allowing new meanings to emerge.
These works by emerging artists treat memory as an open process. Images become traces of experience that preserve, alter, and reconnect memory.
Soft Archives asks how visual fragments carry memory and shape our perception of reality. The exhibition is conceived as a space in which memory remains in motion.
A project by studierendenWERK BERLIN, supervised by Claudia Brieske & curated by Isa Zappe.
works by_
| Bela Böttcher | Sophia Hallmann |
| Merle Hermanns | Angelina Kalachenkova |
| Milena Kwiatowski | Hanna Laurisch |
| Paula Schierholt | Ina Schürmann |
| Margaux Vardon | Sarah Wilhelm |
| Lorenz Wilkomm |
exhibited works_
The Third Place / Contemporary Paintings