GERMANY

It was only a few months ago that we heard about Henrike Naumann’s early passing at the age of 41, as she was preparing to represent Germany. Her practice – at once unsettling and deeply empathetic – depicted a country still marked by unresolved fractures after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Through assemblages of ready-made objects, Naumann created environments that are only apparently ordinary, shaped by an “aesthetics of reunification” which was designed to feel uncannily familiar. The project she had begun developing for Venice together with Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu carries forward this reflection, amplifying it within the context of the German Pavilion fascist architecture .