Building on current discourses on class, Kerstin Honeit (* 1977 in Berlin) examines social structures that foster massive economic inequality in her latest video work, premiering at the KINDL. In this poetic narrative of resistance, “decors of poverty” from the artist’s family interior are juxtaposed with the iconic ruins of the Steglitzer Kreisel in Berlin, a victim of luxury real estate speculation that once housed the district authority and served as a distribution point for social welfare.

Curator: Kathrin Becker

12.6., 19:00
Kerstin Honeit in conversation with Francis Seeck (Professor of Social Work specialising in Democracy & Human Rights Education, anti-discrimination trainer, author, Nuremberg)

Taking up current discourse on class issues, Kerstin Honeit’s new video work, THIS IS POOR! Patterns of Poverty, addresses the social structures leading to stark economic inequality. Using the video as a starting point, Kerstin Honeit and Francis Seeck discuss potential ways to encounter structural poverty and social hierarchies with concepts of solidarity.
In German
Free admission
Free admission to the exhibition from 18:00

Kerstin Honeit's film impressively proves that political art can be entertaining and agitationally committed, playful and analytically clever at the same time. A discovery worth seeing!
[Kerstin Honeits Film beweist eindrucksvoll, dass politische Kunst unterhaltsam und agitatorisch-engagiert zugleich sein kann, verspielt und analytisch-klug. Eine sehenswerte Entdeckung!]
Raimar Stange, monopol-magazin.de, 25.3.24

Honeit's film is an absolutely liberating experience. In the discourse of the class question and economic and social inequality, "This Is Poor!" critically and comically at the same time, consistently and aesthetically analyses the repetitive patterns of structural poverty.
[Honeits Film ist ein absolut befreiendes Erlebnis. Im Diskurs der Klassenfrage und der ökonomischen und sozialen Ungleichheit dekliniert „This Is Poor!“ kritisch und komisch zugleich die sich wiederholenden Muster struktureller Armut auch formalästhetisch konsequent durch.]
Brigitte Wernbeburg, taz, 6.4.24

Further Material:
Room Guide Kerstin Honeit. THIS IS POOR! Patterns of Poverty

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