19 August 2024

Final Days
The Exhibition “The Murmur of the Cosmos: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra” ends on Sunday, 25 August

Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

The exhibition “The Murmur of the Cosmos” with works by the 2023 Käthe Kollwitz Prize winner Sandra Vásquez de la Horra can be seen until 25 August. The large-scale installation El Manto de Obatalá is presented in a site-specific setting along with selected drawings, photographs and objects by the artist.

Based in Germany, Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra uses her work to explore some of the conflicts facing contemporary society around the world, combining issues of gender hierarchies and sexuality, intercultural reflections and spiritual practices with archetypes from our collective consciousness and social taboos. At the centre of her poetic imagery is human existence – explicitly women and the female body. Her work is influenced not only by her country’s history but also by her examination of her own family history, the mythologies of the Indigenous population and European colonial rule in Central and South America.

The Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2023 was awarded to Sandra Vásquez de la Horra on 18 June at the Akademie der Künste. The Käthe Kollwitz Prize has been co-funded by the Kreissparkasse Köln, which sponsors the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne, since 1992.

Until Sunday, 25 August 2024
The Murmur of the Cosmos: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2023
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin, Tel. 030 200 57-2000
Tue–Fri, 2–7 pm, Sat & Sun, 11 am – 7 pm
€ 6/4, free for under-18s and on Tuesdays

Guided tour: Tuesday, 20 August, 5 pm
Curator's tour with Anke Hervol: Sunday, 25 August, 12 noon

Press pictures can be downloaded here.