Under the title Language/Text/Image. Can you hear me? Can you see me?, it was on display from 27 June to 7 December 2025, offering a new audience a multifaceted view of language, text and image as artistic and social expressions.

The selected sound- and text-based photographic, printed, filmed, and textile works by John Baldessari, Alice Bidault, Natalie Czech, Ayşe Erkmen, Nadine Fecht, Gary Hill, the National AIDS Memorial Quilt, Gordon Parks, Markus Vater and Gillian Wearing all took on the challenge of working with something initially situational, unstable, and difficult to control. Rather than counteracting conventions of language and image use, they were used innovatively to create new spaces of meaning. In doing so, the artists explored reading and viewing practices, the intertwining of memory and history, and the boundaries between fact and fiction. At the same time, they questioned entrenched patterns of perception and gave space to the representation of uncertainties and misunderstandings.

This demonstrates that history and storytelling should be understood as something historical that arises from shared experiences and can change. This occurs against a backdrop of diverse origins, influences and subjective experiences, and at a time when the need for security and control is paramount.