The most famous are Carl Hagenbeck’s plans for a so-called future animal park, meant to exhibit animals and people for both entertainment and educational purposes. Driven by German colonialism, these and other partly exotic attributions contributed to the definition of the neighbouring African Quarter.

Constanze Fischbeck and Sven Kalden collage annotated photographs, images, and documents. Together with an essay by the artist Akinbode Akinbiyi, they tell and expand the history of this place from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The fragile nature of a sand dune reflects the complex process of the urbanization of an unusual landscape.

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“Exit represents a development in the theme of disappearing acts prevalent in Rebecca Milling’s work. This series of photographs captures animals exiting the scene, and is distinct in its graphic and formal use of tone… The animals, cut in half and leaving the frame, give oblique but pointed reference to the mass endangerment of species in our present environmental crisis […].”
Cordelia Underhill

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