Mara Wohnhaas & Magdalena Frauenberg: Piece for A Clock
In their performance Piece For A Clock, Mara Wohnhaas & Magdalena Frauenberg play a barrel organ duet. Since the instrument is limited to only 20 notes, the selected pop songs are transformed into abstract/reduced melodies and an exploration of the instrument, promises, limitations, and expectations. The title is derived from Mozart’s three pieces for barrel organ, which he himself classified under the title “A piece for an organ work in a clock.” He wrote them as a commission and only because he was in an unsatisfactory financial situation.
Magdalena Frauenberg (*1996) studied fine art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (2018–2024) under Alexandra Bircken and Franka Hörnschemeyer, where she became a master student of Alexandra Bircken, following her training as a hollow glass finisher at HTL Kramsach (2010–2016). Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including at BPA Space (Cologne), the Kunstverein Bielefeld, and the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. She has received several awards, including the NRW Bank Art Prize (2021), the Provinzial Absolent*Innen Prize 2025, and a travel grant from the Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2023).
Mara Wohnhaas (*1997) graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 2025. In 2021, she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in Bonn. In 2014 and 2015, Mara Wohnhaas was a scholarship holder at the Masterclass at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Her first solo exhibition, “Rekommandeur,” took place in August 2021 at BQ in Berlin. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions, including n.b.k./Uferstudios, Berlin (2024); HAMLET, Zurich (2023); KunstXaus, Zurich, (2023); MAH Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva (2023); CAPC, Bordeaux (2022).
Hana Kawanishi: Leaves of being
Hana Kawanishi uses movement and sound to explore the interaction between body and environment. In the performance Leaves of being, she explores the feeling of not belonging, of being isolated. What separates the body from its surroundings, and what allows the two to merge?
Between myself and the world,
There is a thin sheet of paper.
Drops of water fall;
the paper breaks,
and the boundary slowly dissolves.
Gradually, the outline of myself begins to appear.
I was not born here,
nor will I die here.
No matter how many days or years pass,
I do not belong to this place.
I dissolve pulp into water
and form the paper anew.
I break the shape of myself
in order to create it again.
The paper dissolves,
blending with my existence.
Hana Kawanishi (*2002) works across disciplines in the fields of performance, painting, video, and installation. Since 2022, she studies at the University of the Arts Bremen in the class of Prof. Julika Rudelius and Prof. Katrin von Maltzahn. Her works consist of attempts to explore the interaction between body and environment as well as changes in perception through sound, movement, and space.
as part of Recurrencies—a series of programs that takes place regularly between our exhibitions and opens up space for temporary artistic formats.
Funding
Der Senator für Kultur der Freien Hansestadt Bremen
Beate+Hartmut Schaefers Stiftung