Exhibitions

From Afro, locs, braids or cornrows to bob, beehive or taper, hair is an integral part of our everyday culture and offers unlimited design possibilities. How we choose to show or hide, grow or shave our head, facial and body hair is an expression of our personality, but also of our affiliation to social, political, religious or cultural communities. We use hairstyles to communicate, optimise and conceal a part of our identity …

The French journalist Marie-Claude Deffarge and the Luxembourger Gordian Troeller reported from all over the world in a trenchant, subjective and often controversial manner. They stand for political and critical journalism from the 1950s onwards. In view of today’s crisis in journalism, a new look at their work is of interest to society as a whole. Marie-Claude Deffarge (1924-1984) and Gordian Troeller (1917-2003) made their …

The Vietnamese media artist Ngoc Nau (*1989) is this year's fellow of the New Folkwang Residence. The associated exhibition at Museum Folkwang shows two works created during her five-month stay in Essen. In Ngoc Nau's video-based collages, documentary material meets computer-generated scenes and figures with a video game aesthetic, which place what is depicted in a fictional present. The starting point for most of her works is …