(In)Visibility of Violence

A completely white room is photographed with a window on the left and a clock on the right wall. In the center is an electric chair that looks like a wooden chair standing on a platform.

Lucinda Devlin, The Omega Suites, Virginia Electric Chair 1991, courtesy of Galerie m, Duisburg and the artist.

TraCe Working Paper No. 6 in collaboration with KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN published (in German)

What mecha­nisms determine the visi­bility or invisibility of vio­lence? In what con­texts is violence docu­mented, instru­mentalized, or cen­sorded – and how can it be studied aca­demically? 

These ques­tions form the basis of the TraCe Wor­king Paper No. 6 in co­operation with KUNST­HALLE GIESSEN. The Working Paper is the result of colla­boration within the exhi­bition of the same name “(In)Visibility of Vio­lence” at KUNST­HALLE GIESSEN. It brings to­gether ten contri­butions from TraCe re­searchers and Kunst­halle director Nadia Ismail. While some of the contri­butions take up themes from the exhi­bition, others expand on the artis­tically explored topics through em­pirical and theo­retical reflections or geo­graphical focuses. In their sty­listic and content-related diversity, the texts re­flect the inter­disciplinarity of the parti­cipants. 

PRIF is represented by Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, Tina Cramer, Jonas Wolff, Regine Schwab, Sabine Mannitz, and Thilo Marauhn.

The wor­king paper is available for down­load (PDF) in Ger­man language. A detailed journal, by KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN with contributions from TraCe will also be published to accompany the exhibition, providing further insight into the exhibition themes (available in German and English).

The free entry exhi­bitio “(In)visibility of Violence” opens on Au­gust 22, 2025, and can be visited at the KUNST­HALLE GIESSEN until Novem­ber 2, 2025. There is also a varied accompanying program for the exhi­bition.