EINBLICKE: “Ten Lives: Delschad Numan Khorschid and Jan-Hendrik Pelz”
Curatorted tour with curator Anne Marr, Museum Villa Stuck:
Refuge, trauma, identity, and longing are the central themes of the exhibition “Ten Lives.” Delschad Numan Khorschid, a member of the Munich Residenztheater ensemble, processes the traumatic memories of his flight from Iraq through paintings, photographs, and texts. Jan-Hendrik Pelz uses paintings and sculptures to draw attention to the fates of migrants. Against the backdrop of current sociopolitical debates, in which migration is often reduced to statistics and demands for rejection and restrictions, this exhibition creates a space for empathy and humanity and demonstrates the power of language and artistic expression.
The author, actor, and artist Delschad Numan Khorschid was born in northern Iraq in the early 1980s; his family belonged to the Kurdish minority. During the so-called “Operation Anfal” in the late 1980s—a genocide against the Kurds perpetrated under Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime—he lost his father and large parts of his family (…) READ MORE: www.villastuck.de
Jan-Hendrik Pelz was born in Filderstadt in 1984 and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Prof. Christian Jankowski. In 2011, he completed an Erasmus fellowship in Basel, and in 2018, he was awarded the title of “Meisterschüler” as part of the Weissenhof Program. He currently works in the fields of painting, installation, and (…) READ MORE: www.villastuck.de