DISSOLUTIONS—Mooni Perry
Kunst Raum Mitte•May 23, 2026 — Oct 04, 2026
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At the core of artist and filmmaker Mooni Perry‘s solo show is the video installation EL (2025), which will be presented in Europe for the first time. Influenced by feminist and speculative readings of East Asian cosmologies, the exhibition takes the form of a hotel lingering between memory and oblivion. Perry takes as her starting point the historical and cultural interconnections of East Asia in the context of Japanese colonial rule in Korea and Manchukuo, a puppet state in northeastern China controlled by Japan from 1932 to 1945. The region was promoted as a space of new possibilities, driven by migration and promises of a better future. This vision, however, was based on coercion, displacement, and human trafficking, as evidenced by the history of the so-called “comfort women,” who were subjected to wartime sexual slavery by the Japanese military.
At Kunst Raum Mitte, the focus on site-specific historiographies shifts to the institutional framework itself: the historic…
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DISSOLUTIONS—Mooni Perry
Kunst Raum Mitte•May 23, 2026 — Oct 04, 2026
Press Release
At the core of artist and filmmaker Mooni Perry‘s solo show is the video installation EL (2025), which will be presented in Europe for the first time. Influenced by feminist and speculative readings of East Asian cosmologies, the exhibition takes the form of a hotel lingering between memory and oblivion. Perry takes as her starting point the historical and cultural interconnections of East Asia in the context of Japanese colonial rule in Korea and Manchukuo, a puppet state in northeastern China controlled by Japan from 1932 to 1945. The region was promoted as a space of new possibilities, driven by migration and promises of a better future. This vision, however, was based on coercion, displacement, and human trafficking, as evidenced by the history of the so-called “comfort women,” who were subjected to wartime sexual slavery by the Japanese military.
At Kunst Raum Mitte, the focus on site-specific historiographies shifts to the institutional framework itself: the historic…
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