"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale
KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen•Oct 03, 2025 — Nov 30, 2025
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With “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale, Künstler:innenhaus Bremen presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by Italian artist Elisa Giardina Papa. At the heart of the exhibition, both conceptually and formally, is the eponymous video work, first shown in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale. Giardina Papa works with film, drawing, and ceramics, to explore how hegemonic demands for order and legibility strain radical forms of knowledge and desire. Her work interrogates how images shape our understanding of history, and the role archives, collective narratives, and rituals play in forming identity, power structures, and forms of belonging.
The exhibition builds on “U Scantu” both formally and thematically. The video – also featured in the installation at Künstler:innenhaus – is accompanied by sculptural elements and symbolic motifs uncovered through archival research. Among these are braided ceramic plaits that t…
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"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale
KH Künstler:innenhaus Bremen•Oct 03, 2025 — Nov 30, 2025
Press Release
With “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale, Künstler:innenhaus Bremen presents the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by Italian artist Elisa Giardina Papa. At the heart of the exhibition, both conceptually and formally, is the eponymous video work, first shown in 2022 at the 59th Venice Biennale. Giardina Papa works with film, drawing, and ceramics, to explore how hegemonic demands for order and legibility strain radical forms of knowledge and desire. Her work interrogates how images shape our understanding of history, and the role archives, collective narratives, and rituals play in forming identity, power structures, and forms of belonging.
The exhibition builds on “U Scantu” both formally and thematically. The video – also featured in the installation at Künstler:innenhaus – is accompanied by sculptural elements and symbolic motifs uncovered through archival research. Among these are braided ceramic plaits that t…
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