Tekla Aslanishvili 
The Plan and the Map
A Film Chronicle of Infrastructural (Dis)assembly
October 17, 2025 – extended until February 1, 2026

The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden is presenting the first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany of work by Tekla Aslanishvili (born 1988 in Tbilisi), one of the most exciting voices in contemporary video art. In four compelling films, the Berlin-, Tbilisi- and Vienna-based artist explores how infrastructure—from railways to energy grids—becomes a site for practicing both political power and social utopia.

Aslanishvili's works combine precise research with poetic imagery, weaving documentary forms with personal narrative, musical composition, and political analysis. At the centre of the exhibition is her new two-channel film The Mountain Speaks to the Sea (2024–25), which tells of the political, social, and ecological dynamics surrounding a planned submarine energy cable in the Black Sea. It is presented alongside earlier works like Scenes from Trial and Error (2020) examining the failed vision of transforming a Georgian fishing village into a futuristic smart city. Maps, photographs, and research materials expand the cinematic works into a dense parcours spanning two floors of the Kunstverein.

The film Scenes from Trial and Error (2020) is this year's contribution by the Nassauischer Kunstverein to the exground filmfest.

Contributors /

Photographic Works: Nikoloz Tabukashvili, Guram Tikanadze
Research: Alexandra Aroshvili (The Mountain Speaks to the Sea), Evelina Gambino (A State in a State)
Script: Evelina Gambino (A State in a State)
Co-Director: Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze (Stone of Hell)
Composition: Ani Zakareishvili, Nika Pasuri
Exhibition Architecture: Natalia Nebieridze

With gratitude to our supporters: Cultural Office Wiesbaden, Hessian Cultural Foundation, Naspa, Schufa, Graduate School of the Berlin University of the Arts and Henkell Sparkling Wine Cellars. In cooperation with exground filmfest.

Lola Göller
A Worm in the Cherry
September 12, 2025 – May 3, 2026
 

With A Worm in the Cherry, the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden presents a solo exhibition by Berlin-based artist Lola Göller (1983 in Frankfurt am Main) as part of the Follow Fluxus fellowship 2024/25.

What the fuck is happening? Using this question as a starting point, Göller explores the constant barrage of everyday media—an absurd symphony of catastrophes and cat memes. Various voices, including her own, serve as narrative or confrontational tools to examine dysfunctions, distortions, defiance, and (digital) loss of control. The worm in the cherry becomes a metaphor for system failures, structural destruction, and civil disobedience.

Lola Göller’s practice includes objects, installations, and a broad range of audiovisual formats. Her interdisciplinary approach combines media-reflexive strategies with a critical interrogation of perception, memory, and social dynamics.

The results of her residency are now on view at the Kunstverein: fueled by ire, informed by friends and ghosts, topped with no cake but a cherry.

We thank the Cultural Office of Wiesbaden and the Henkell Sparkling Wine Cellars for their kind support of the exhibition.

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