last days: Nadine Karl at Künstlerverein Malkasten

The installation »present is fragile« comes together in an interconnected presentation by Nadine Karl and Majo Caporaletti at Künstlerverein Malkasten. Memories from the artists’ time in the Chilean desert reappear within the works, making remembrance tangible while holding it open for the future, echoing museum vitrines that preserve fragile artefacts across generations. Within the installation, materials and images enter into shifting relations: Karl’s glass objects placed in sand evoke connections between object, body, and landscape, while Caporaletti’s paintings unfold as layered scenes oscillating between dream and reality. Together, they reflect on the instability of collective memory, which is constantly reshaped by social and political conditions.

Fragility becomes a central condition – not as loss, but as a continuous state of attention, care, and transformation. Temporal layers dissolve into one another, while the present emerges as a site where past and future are continuously negotiated. With reference to a curatorial text by Lilith Bitzer.

»present is fragile«

Installation in the Vitrine at Hentrichhaus

Exhibition Dates
June 2 – August 18

Visiting Hours
Monday to Sunday, 12–9 PM

Künstlerverein Malkasten
Jacobistraße 6a, 40211 Düsseldorf

Curated by Lilith Bitzer