ANNA-MARIA PODLACHA
CIAN MCCARTHY
IYAMARI
KURT YAU KWOK KEUNG
Opening, WED, June 25, 2025, 6pm—9pm
Exhibition dates: June 25—June 28, 2025
Open hours: THU — SAT, 11am—8pm
LAGE EGAL @CULTERIM ROSSMANN
Brunnenstraße 105-109
13355 Berlin-Wedding
Contact: wholeholewall@gmail.com
sonderlage@lage-egal.net
In partnership with IESA Arts&Culture
Have you ever sensed something just beyond your reach — unseen, yet deeply present?
This exhibition invites you to explore ghosts as metaphors for memory, trauma, and the unseen.
Set in a former Rossmann in a Berlin shopping mall—an ordinary space now reactivated — SEEING GHOSTS brings spectral presence into sharp focus. Berlin itself, marked by a haunting history, becomes the perfect setting to reflect on ghosts as lingering traces of the past. SEEING GHOSTS brings together four artists from China, Ireland, Japan and Germany to engage with the notion of “ghosts” through diverse cultural and historical lenses — ranging from European sociology and ancient mythology to Shinto beliefs and pop culture. Through drawings, paintings, photography, and video works, these artistic expressions give voice to the unseen, tracing the faint presence of what lingers just beyond perception. SEEING GHOSTS invites reflection on presence, memory, and the unseen forces that shape our shared realities.
German artist, ANNA-MARIA PODLACHA combines personal photographs with found archival images through double exposures and image manipulation. The questions are starting to emerge between visible and invisible, how are collective stories constructed? Can we find individuality in the anonymity of collectiveness?
In Echoes of Restoration, Irish artist, CIAN MCCARTHY reflects on the complex experience of receiving a cochlear implant. Through video and sound, he explores how healing is not only physical but deeply emotional and internal.
Looking toward Asia, in Japan, people believe that spirits are thought to reside not only in people, but also in all elements of nature, Japanese artist, IYAMARI makes the invisible perceptible by her research-based video and sound work inspired by cherry blossoms, a symbol of special significance in Japanese culture.
Artist KURT YAU KWOK KEUNG comes from Hong Kong draws parallels between his work and the city he based in : layered, fragmented, offering a quiet meditation on pain, survival, and the invisible traces we leave behind.
These ghosts — whether intimate, collective, or cultural — serve as vessels for messages, carrying echoes of memory and presence. SEEING GHOSTS is an exploration of ghostly aesthetics, offering a glimpse into what it means to experience the spectral in contemporary art.
