With Dr. Dirk Pörschmann
In the rotunda of the Museum of Sepulchral Culture, Rana Matloub presents older and newer works that deal with the themes of death, war and memory.
The theme of death has long been a part of her life, particularly due to the various wars. She experienced the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s in her birthplace, Baghdad. With the outbreak of the First Gulf War in 1990, she and her family came to Germany. She experienced this war and the Second Gulf War, beginning in 2003, from afar; nevertheless, the news reports deeply affected her – also because of her family members who remained in Iraq.
Dirk Pörschmann, head of the Museum for Sepulchral Culture, and the artist herself will lead a tour through the cabinet exhibition “ Don’t dig holes next to the graves ” this Wednesday .
About the artist
Rana Matloub , who lives in Kassel, was born in Baghdad in 1975 and moved to Germany in 1990. She studied art education at the University of Dortmund and fine arts at the Kassel School of Art and Design. In 2006, she was a master student of Prof. Norbert Radermacher.
Since then, she has realized numerous group and solo exhibitions both in Germany and abroad. Starting with drawing as her primary medium, she works with site-specific installations, often incorporating audio or video. She addresses politically and socially relevant themes such as war, gender identity, cultural diversity, and religiosity.
In addition to her work as a freelance visual artist, she was, among other things, a research and artistic assistant at the Kassel School of Art and Design from 2009 to 10 and worked as a freelance art educator at the Fridericianum from 2014 to 16. Since 2017, she has been teaching in the art department at the University of Erfurt.
Entry and participation are free, donations are welcome.
