Angst vor der Tagesordnung
28.08.2025 –
22.11.2025
Artist Talk with Noa Gur and Susanne Keichel
hosted by Mira Anneli Naß
October 5 2025, 4.30 pm in the exhibition
Alexanderstraße 9b
Noa Gur & Susanne Keichel
Fear of the Agenda addresses the ongoing far-right violence in reunified Germany and those in solidarity who tirelessly advocate for its victims.
The exhibition specifically commemorates Marwa El-Sherbini, who was threatened by a right-wing extremist in Dresden and brought the case to court there in July 2009. The court ruled in her favour but underestimated the danger in the courtroom. This allowed the defendant to kill El-Sherbini immediately after the hearing and seriously injure her husband. A police officer rushing to the scene mistook her husband for the perpetrator and shot him in the leg.
The artists examine the state’s failure and the shifting of responsibility and remembrance.
Since 2010, Susanne Keichel, as a Dresden-based contemporary witness of El-Sherbini, has been documenting the annual commemorations in a photographic long-term observation. The setting of this theatre of remembrance—full of staged gestures and rituals—is Dresden, the reconstructed “art city.”
Noa Gur has developed a choreographic video work in which she scenically processes and physically retraces the events using information from the court files. Her performative approach is not a mere re-enactment but a resistant, fragmentary act of remembrance. She also presents an archive of newspaper articles from Western media that portrayed the events as a spectacle of opposites, thereby contributing to the ongoing underestimation of far-right violence as isolated incidents.
An accompanying programme will bring together individuals engaged in other struggles of remembrance from both theoretical and local practice contexts. Further information to follow.
Curated by Linda Valerie Ewert
Assistance: Charlotte Uekermann
In cooperation with the Köfte Kosher Memorial Pavilion at Marwa-El-Sherbini-Platz, Bremen
With the kind support of the Partnership for Democracy
the Beate + Hartmut Schaefers Foundation
as well as Artis
Susanne Keichel (*1981 in Dresden, lives in Dresden) trained as a photographer with Stefan Thurmann in Hamburg before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, where she graduated as a master student under Prof. Tina Bara. Her works were presented at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 as part of the official collateral programme, followed by exhibitions at Kunsthaus Dresden, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, and “Rundgang 50Hertz” in cooperation with the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, as well as at the Prague Photo Festival and EMOP 2023 in Berlin. Keichel was Artist in Residence at the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam and a NEUSTARTplus grantee of the Kunstfonds Bonn. She is the recipient of the 2024 BMW Photo Award Leipzig from the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig and was awarded the Scholarship for Contemporary German Photography by the Krupp Foundation.
Noa Gur (*1980 in Tel Aviv, lives in Tel Aviv and Berlin) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines the interplay of presence and gaze, employing performative means of reconstruction. She has exhibited at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, KIT Düsseldorf, Museu MAN Nuoro in Italy, Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv, Campagne Première in Berlin, and Nir Altman in Munich. Her works are held in several collections, including the Goetz Collection in Munich, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, the Tel Aviv Museum collection, the Federal Art Collection of Germany, and Fluentum in Berlin.
For further research (in German), see
Interview with Susanne Keichel, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 02. 09. 2025
Der Mord an Marwa El-Sherbini - Gegen uns.
In Gedenken an Marwa El-Sherbiny – Institut für Medienverantwortung