“PLUMM PASCHA” - Günter- Grass- Haus (2025)

synopsis: From June 25 to November 9, 2025, Vanessa Cardui presents her video work PLUMM PASCHA as part of the exhibition “ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER – Artist, Poet, World-Builder” at the Günter Grass- Haus. The piece offers an audiovisual reinterpretation of the comedy, originally written by Else Lasker-Schüler in 1913. Using her signature stop-motion technique and an intuitive engagement with paper as material, Cardui transforms the original text into a tactile, audiovisual narrative space. The process of creation remains visible: the artist’s hands intervene directly – tearing, folding, layering. Characters emerge from fragments of paper, morphing into vividly colored figures. Plumm Pascha’s head becomes that of a violet bull, the deaf servant stumbles beneath his gadgets, and the princess frees herself from a crumpled ball of paper. Accompanied by classical music and voice-over of the original text, the piece takes on a new dimension – sensual, absurd, and alive. A contemporary, interdisciplinary dialogue between literature, image, and motion.

references: Stipendium/ Nachwuchsförderung (emerging artist scholarship) Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck, Günter- Grass- Haus 2025