Ganz andere Wärme / Was ist, wenn du warst?

A completely different kind of warmth – Karla Zipfel
A Wilhelminian-style building, a WBS70 prefabricated concrete slab building, a farmhouse, and a postmodern apartment building from the post-reunification period – Karla Zipfel examines social change in the Mansfeld-Südharz district and the city of Halle using archetypal residential buildings, their facades, and heating sources.
The result is an installation that uses models of buildings and heating circuits to refer to the interrelationships between social and physical warmth. Whether oil and gas heating, wood-burning stoves, heat pumps, or solar energy, warmth does not necessarily lead to social cohesion.

What if you were? – Carla Lou West
Once dismissed as inanimate matter and waste products, the slag heaps of the Mansfeld region have been transformed into living places. Plants and animals have populated them, and residents have rediscovered them as hiking destinations, shooting ranges, or meeting places for culture and community. Since 2038, the annual Haldenfest has been held, during which the slag heaps, symbols of mining, are circled in a festive procession.
But now the 19 largest of them are to be removed – including a slag heap, a potash heap, and 17 slate heaps. The highest reached up to 153 meters.
In a fictional narrative, Carla Lou West examines the slag heaps as monuments worthy of protection, thus highlighting the connection between the past, present, and future.

September 17 to October 12
Opening Tuesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m.

Große Ulrichstraße 13, 06108 Halle (Saale)

Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Free admission