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Ariel Reichman

Keiner soll frieren!
Museumsquartier der Stadt Osnabrück

Fraught Material

Ariel Reichman (b. Johannesburg, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) combines photography, film, sculpture, and installation art in complex immersive experiences in which he explores themes of human vulnerability and empathy. When Reichman stumbled over Nazi memorabilia on a flea market, he felt the need to remove them from circulation. For his most recent project, he started buying Nazi-era metal objects on online platforms, melting them down, and casting them into new shapes. In this context, Reichman also came across the “Winter Relief of the German ­People,” a program launched by Adolf Hitler in 1933, and examined the propagandistic fundraising campaign promoted under the slogan “No one shall be hungry, no one shall freeze!”. Small floral badges that donors received in recognition of their contribution are reproduced in the publication as polaroids, their blend of innocuous beauty and brutal calculation creating a deeply unsettling effect. 

The book accompanying the exhibition presents a selection of over eighty new works. With a preface by Nils-Arne Kässens, an essay on the exhibition by the curator Mechthild Achelwilm, a contribution by Thorsten Heese on the "Winter Relief of the ­German People,” and a conversation between Sebastian Baden and the artist.