Veronika Dräxler booked a Zoom-Séance with medium Ingrid Müller-Farny to contact Joseph Beuys in the realm of spirits on the 12th of May 2021: On this date, Beuys would have turned 100. The information gathered in this session influenced the curation of objects installed at the gallery. The artist sourced most of them from the estate of her grandparents. As a result, these objects become symbolic bearers of the experience of the German (post-)war generation.
Medea refers to Beuys’ work Iason, where he used a zinc bathtub for a sculptural composition. Veronika moves the female figure from the myth “the Golden Fleece” into the foreground, showing a woman who cures herself with seven rituals from mental trauma. The signature materials of Joseph Beuys fat and felt are updated into olive oil and recycling felt. Medea is performed by the artist herself.
