Open Process / Offener Prozess

The exhibition Offener Prozess is dedicated to the NSU complex. In doing so, it takes the East German reality, especially in Saxony, as a starting point to tell a story of the NSU complex that starts from the migration stories and the continuities of right-wing and racist violence and resistance against it. With the approach of a “living memory,” she brings marginalized perspectives into focus. In addition, she takes aim at structural and institutional racism. Artistic contributions by Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl, belit sağ, Želimir Žilnik, Ulf Aminde, Forensic Architecture and many more are dedicated to the realities of life of guest workers, migration stories, everyday life in Germany and right-wing terrorist violence as well as everyday racism. Activist initiatives remember those who have become victims of this violence and are the loud voices of those who defend themselves against it. Listening is understood here as a political practice, remembering as a process. This exhibition calls for action.

The exhibition will travel to various cities throughout Germany and Europe and will be framed by an educational and accompanying program. Contemporary witnesses will speak, perspectives will be exchanged in discussion formats, impulses will be given through film screenings, people will be brought into conversation with each other in discussion rounds, music by former contract workers will be heard, and the exhibition will be a place of encounter and research. In 2021, the exhibition will be shown in Jena and Chemnitz as well as in Brussels and – in partial excerpts – at thirteen theater locations. In the following years, further stops in cities are planned. From 2025, it will be on view as a permanent exhibition in Chemnitz.

The exhibition includes Forensic Architecture’s work The Murder of Halit Yozgat, examining one of a spree of murders committed in the early 2000s by neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Underground (NSU).