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Heidi Specker

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Heidi Specker (born 1962, Damme, Germany) is an artist based in Berlin. Her photographic, conceptual practice explores various photographic genres, using them to examine the medium of photography itself. In 1995 she created the Speckergruppen series, followed by Im Garten in 2003. From 2008 onwards, she began linking places with historical figures and artistic positions: Landhaus Lemke with Mies van der Rohe, Termini in 2010 with Giorgio de Chirico and Carlo Mollino, and Re-prise in 2016 with Moi Wer. In 2020 and 2022, she produced the biographical work DAMME. This was followed in 2026 by Damenzimmer, focusing on Aenne Biermann. Specker publishes her works in book form or presents them exclusively in exhibition settings, such as Help me I am blind in collaboration with Theo Deutinger, 3 Women with Anna Viebrock, and Le pigment de la lumière with Olaf Nicolai. Specker has held solo exhibitions at venues including the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, and Camera Austria in Graz.

Schermbeck

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Schermbeck by Stephanie Kiwitt

Weekly market in Schermbeck with mobile stalls and customers. Two food trucks sell fresh baked goods and cheese

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Historic alley in Schermbeck with red brick walls, cobblestones, and half-timbered houses.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Parking lot in Schermbeck with cars and old brick industrial buildings in the background.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Whitewashed historic chapel in Schermbeck with red roof tiles and parked cars around.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Residential buildings in Schermbeck featuring a mix of half-timbered, brick, and modern architecture.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Old and modern buildings in Schermbeck with a church tower in the background, typical of the cityscape.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Historic brick wall in Schermbeck with green vegetation and parked cars beside it.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

Backyard with old brick walls and modern residential buildings in Schermbeck. Contrast between old and new.

© Stephanie Kiwitt

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Stephanie Kiwitt

Stephanie Kiwitt captures the transformation of rural areas in her photographic work - most recently in Saxony-Anhalt with “Flächenland”.

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