NACHTSCHATTEN UNTER PALMEN, Gastatelier Goldbekhof e.V., Hamburg

Final presentation after the one-year studio scholarship at Goldbekhof e.V.

Artistic research on the subject of exile

Painting and installation about German-speaking artists and writers in exile

1933 – 1945

Silkeborg’s project is about using the darkness or twilight of the night (which is my artistic focus anyway) as a pictorial parable for the following basic mood parable for the following basic mood: Dreams and nightmares / darkening of the future pros-pects of the refugees / the uncertainty felt when trying to find their way at night.

The studio scholarship at Goldbekhof was made possible by the Liebelt Foundation Hamburg, project donations from the Ian and Barbara Karan Foundation, the Thor Foundation, Doris Lehman and Monika Tede via the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.