Out of the Box 75 Years of the Archive at the Akademie der Künste

A multi-piece work on paper based on research into German philosopher Walter Benjamin's ephemera. Both Benjamin's work and my own are held in the collection at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin)., and presented together in Out of the Box. To mark its 75th anniversary, an exhibition shares 75 stories – about memory work, the genesis of artistic works, the structure and organisation of cultural knowledge, and questions of transmission and missing items. In an age of “alternative facts” and artificial intelligence, the archives remain a beacon of reliable information and authentic sources. At the same time, they embrace new forms of artistic expression, media, storage and communication.