MQ Artist-in-Residence Heidi Specker: Amnesia

12.11. 2025 – May 2026
Sternenpassage | Free entry

Opening & catalogue presentation: Wed 12.11.2025, 18.30h

In the Sternenpassage of the MQ, passersby encounter Heidi Specker's lions as luminous photographs in an interplay of dark and light. The artist approaches the sculptures so closely that their materiality merges into the pictorial space: the sandstone becomes a surface, the relief a drawing of light and shadow. Through reflection, cropping, and reduction to black and white, Specker transforms the original figures into almost abstract forms that oscillate between presence and dissolution. In the context of the Sternenpassage, where images of the sky meet urban movement, this creates images that reflect rather than document—about perception, memory, and the silent transformation of matter into light.

During her residency at the MQ in August 2025, Heidi Specker worked on photographic estates. In the Sternenpassage, she presents a variation of her series Amnesia Gera (2024). The presentation is accompanied by the publication Lumen Zine #15, Heidi Specker, 2025 (ed. Sabine Jelinek, Verlag Schlebrügge.Editor, Vienna), with a text by Ruth Horak and Christian Köberl.

Curator: Sabine Jelinek

Image credits: © Heidi Specker