10/10/2026, 3:30 pm,

Artist Talk with Euridice Zaituna Kala, Sophie Kaplan and Merle Radtke

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At the beginning of the exhibition Daylighting: aber es ist Wasser, das spricht there will be a conversation between Euridice Zaituna Kala, Sophie Kaplan, director of La Criée centre d'art contemporain Rennes, and Merle Radtke, director of the Kunsthalle Münster.

Kala's artistic work emerges from a profound deconstruction, manipulation and reconstruction of cultural and historical metamorphoses. With her works, she invites us to engage with the historical and cultural transformations of (personal and collective) memory. Particular attention is paid to the complex relationship between colonialism and post-colonialism as well as post-colonial remembrance. With her artistic research and creations, she has developed an impressive strategy to engage with the long history of erasure and silencing and to trace invisible subjectivities and communities.

The exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Mozambican artist in a German institution. At the same time it is a touring exhibition that was on view at La Criée centre d'art contemporain in Rennes from February to April 2025 and at La Loge in Brussels from February to June 2026. With each presentation the exhibition changed with the context, for Kunsthalle Münster new work is produced. The conversation will provide a deeper insight into the artist's work as well as the development of the exhibition and its‘ different stages.

Euridice Zaituna Kala lives and works in Maison-Alfort, France. Kala trained in photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg from 2010 to 2012 and at the Asiko School in Maputo in 2015. Her artistic work emerges from a profound deconstruction, manipulation and reconstruction of cultural and historical metamorphoses. Through her artistic research and creations, she has developed an impressive strategy to deal with the long history of erasure and silencing that people from Mozambique and other countries have experienced first-hand. Kala has staged numerous performances, including Ritual as March as Protest, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2023); Sea(E)scapes: Listening Session, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2022); Tœtra, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Stranger, Danger: Wait, it's just a prayer Room, Center Pompidou, Paris (2019); Mackandal Turns into a Butterfly: a love portion, La Galerie-CAC de Noisy-le-Sec (2018). Her most recent exhibitions include En quelques gestes: as if two suns were setting, galerie anne barrault, Paris (2024); Echos der Bruderländer, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2024); Prémio Paulo Cunha e Silva, Galerie Municipal, Porto (2023); Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2023); Sea(E) scapes DNA: Don't (N)ever Ask, Galerie Salon H, Paris (2022); Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2022); This Is Not Africa - Unlearn What You Have Learned, ARoS Museum, Aarhus (2021); Je suis l'archive, I the archive, Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2020). In 2024, she was invited to participate in the exhibition Passengers in Transit as part of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale.

Sophie Kaplan lives and works in Rennes. She is the director of La Criée centre d'art contemporain Since 2012. His critical approach and his curatorial practice develop around the importance attached to collaborations – in particular with artists via the setting up at La Criée of cycles and associated artists; from the space left to them as engines of research, creation and transmission; from interest to the crossing of the arts, disciplines and knowledge.

Merle Radtke works as curator and writer. In her curatorial work she focuses on feminism, the construction and deconstruction of history, art in the public space war, (post-)digital art practice, sound art and Latin American art. Since July 2018, she is working as director of Kunsthalle Münster, devising and realizing the exhibition, furthermore she is for the city’s collection of art in the public space and the residency program Residence NRW+. Previously, she has worked as a curator for Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, amongst others. From 2015 to 2017, she was research fellow of the Aesthetics of the Virtual graduate program at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. In 2018, she was a fellow at Villa Kamogawa/Goethe Institut Kyoto, Japan. And in 2024, she curated the Art Weekend Belgrade. On a regular basis, she publishes texts on contemporary art and culture.