Textures of time. These words reveal a lot about Maja Gratzfeld's work. The visual artist is interested in cultural interpretations, in the great questions of humanity and in themes relating to urban space and nature. Her multi-layered works, influenced by the depth of chemical and digital images, refer to complex identities and non-linear concepts of time. Maja Gratzfeld processes materials by folding, tearing and separating them to create new visual forms that offer the viewer a meditative space for self-reflection. Maja Gratzfeld lives and works in Germany, Israel and France. In January 2025, she curated the internationally acclaimed exhibition ‘Tedious and Brief’ by two Israeli artists for the Kunstverein Dresden. For this reason, the Kunstverein Dresden has invited Maja Gratzfeld to explore the theme of 8 May 1945.

Textures of time. Or ‘ripped fabric of time, between layers of melted sand’, torn fabric of time, between layers of melted sand. Eighty years after the end of the war, this work by Maja Gratzfeld calls for caution. It illustrates the fragility of peace, depicted as a fragile fabric whose material presence harbours the traces of past conflicts. The threads of history are interwoven as in a rewritten text, showing that the cracks of the past continue to influence the present structure. In the face of new tensions, the question arises: is the peace we have achieved strong enough to withstand the strains of time, or is the object of our hope in danger of crumbling once again?