Katharina Kohl

Personal-Befragung / Blickraum Innere Sicherheit

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Questioning of the Personnel / Inner Security’s Space

February 9th – April 21st 2018

exhibition view at galerie postel, February 2018

Working on the portrait series “Questioning the Personnel” took Katharina Kohl five years. Forty portraits were included in the series – far more painted – all of people employed by the German state who were involved in the investigations into the murders committed by a Nazi terror group known as the NSU (Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund). The result is a complex analysis of different characters, structures of networks and institutions installed to support the democracy.

In addition to the presentation of the series in an archive-like installation further works relating to the same context or to Kohl’s portrait practice will be on show.

Katharina Kohl, from the series “Personal-Befragung” (“Questioning the Personnel”): Hans-Georg Engelke, 2017, Felix Schwarz, 2013, Helmut Roewer, 2012