With Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), a young poet died four days before the end of the First World War I is the most important, of the English-language war poets. In his poems he gives insights into the misery of war, its consequences for the individual and for societies. In 2014, the collected poems by Wilfred Owen were published for the first time in German by Verlagshaus Berlin in the form of the volume The Wretchedness of War.

Andrea Schmidt's works confront the poems, develop artistic positions on them and design a contemporary visual language that opens up new approaches to the texts. In her ink drawings, Andrea Schmidt experiments with natural and created structures that determine, penetrate, change, manipulate or destroy each other and are brought into new orders in the form of layers and overlays in a graphic, digital and performative manner. 

As part of the exhibition, there will be a performance of Wilfred Owen's poems with the author, translator and publisher Jo Frank and Andrea Schmidt

List of Works

• Centre Wall
  o.T., 2023, Digitaldruck, Edition 3/3 +2 A.P.;
  Tryptichon 225 x 58 cm

• Right Wall
  Drei Serien
  o.T., 2023, Digitaldruck, Edition 3/3 +2 A.P.; 42 x 30 cm

• Left Wall
  1 – 3
  o.T., 2023, Siebdruck, Edition 5/5 + 2 A.P.; 33 x 25 cm, gerahmt 52,5 x 42,5 cm