An art project with an exhibition series tackling SOLASTALGIA, ecological justice and spiritual ecology

In an era of demystification and disillusionment, religions and spiritual practices are fading away worldwide. Especially central Europe witnesses the vanishing of burial customs, with churches and cemeteries becoming relics of grieving cultures and connected communities. Simultaneously, the earth faces a climax of environmental crises and mass extinctions. The neologism and framework of SOLASTALGIA, which explores the emotional distress, aspects of kinship and belonging in the face of species loss and landscape destruction, offers a space for social- environmental justice . Giving space to the emotional aspects of loss and stressing a focus on queer, animistic and indigenous practices.

The curation of Cadavre Exquis evolved as a collaboration between Ece Manav, Janu Krohm, Alican Ocan and Julia Flux with the great support of the art collective FREYA ALT and Intercultural Roots.

CADAVRE EXQUIS emerged here as a framework, encompassing an EXHIBITION at Kiezkapelle chapel and workshops on environmental justice and grief in the „befriedet“ St. Jacobi Cemetery inBerlin‘s Neukölln district.