Now that I can hear you my eyes hurt

In 2019, she surprised as »Natascha Süder Happelmann« with a stone made of papier-mâché on her head, tone in tone with her gray suit. Natascha Sadr Haghighian designed the German pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. With her pseudonym »Süder Happelmann,« she picks up on common misspellings or autocorrections of her Iranian name – proving with this alone how she humorously subverts representative roles. She uses her (often collaborative) works to renegotiate the concept of community and call for understanding migration as part of existence. Haghighian's largely installation-based works will be turned to the Lenbachhaus in Munich beginning May 23.

The solo exhibition Now that I can hear you my eyes hurt (Tumult) programmatically focuses on the whistle. An instrument that, despite its attention-seeking, shrill sound, never takes a clear position: it is used both by those in authority and against them. The title of the exhibition derives from the large-scale banner dedicated to the late activist Hassan Numan. Numan used the whistle in his fight against deportation. For four evenings, the Lenbachhaus will also show The Broken Pitcher project in the garden – a video installation that deals with the foreclosure of a single-family home at the time of the 2012 economic crisis in Cyprus. The project stems from a collaboration between Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou and Peter Eramian. The exhibition ends on October 8.