18/01/2026
Anna-Christin Haas, Creative Director of Galvan, and artist Alicja Kwade explore material at its most essential, approaching it from different disciplines. Haas works on the body. At Galvan, she uses clean lines, precise cuts, and fabric tension to sculpt and reinforce silhouette, with nothing distracting from the essential. Kwade investigates the honesty of elemental materials, transforming them through processes such as electroplating, oxidation, slicing, and mirroring. Her interventions alter surface and perception while preserving an object’s essential identity.
Through ongoing dialogue facilitated by art curator Anna Deilmann, their exchange crystallised around a shared fascination with galvanisation as a process that strengthens an object while allowing its identity to remain intact.
Kwade’s work Atropa Belladonna (Emergency Pill), 2014, a gold electroplated Atropa belladonna berry, became a central reference. A fragile object made enduring, it encapsulated the conceptual tension within their shared dialogue of preservation and transformation, and helped shape the design direction for „A Space for a Secret” that followed.
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