Opening: 16 January 2026, from 7 p.m.

Exhibition: 17 January – 23 February 2026

Open by appointment: 0178 3298106 or mailto@after-the-butcher.de

Vorraum 

The term ‘Vorraum’ (anteroom / pre-space / pre-political space) is now being used by political parties. It distinguishes between a society and its political actors. This distinction makes it possible to separate right-wing parties from their followers. In the pre-space, symptoms can be slandered as causes and turned into scapegoats, Nazi symbols can be shown, Horst Wessel songs can be sung, people can be threatened, or forums can be littered with rubbish. But if pre-space means a gradual change in social subjectivity, then the interior of a car on a sunny morning in Los Angeles could also be a pre-space, where people talk about the impossibility that everyone in the world can have a shower each day. From there, we would then have to begin to think of the ‚pre-space’ as an unbroken arc leading to the lipstick traces on the title pages, street slogans and war memorabilia. 

titre provisoire, Cathleen Schuster and Marcel Dickhage show their film `A cold case of happiness´ (34 min), Sim Oerthel is showing three fragmentary figures that are related to each other.

Cathleen Schuster and Marcel Dickhage work from a research based approach in time-based media, with archives and text/image related. They collaborate as titre provisoire.
Sim Oerthel, born in Nuremberg in 1997, have been living in Vienna since 2020, where they study at the Academy of Fine Arts.
The exhibition is organised by Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann.