Paula Doepfner’s installation Ease Your Window Down is dedicated to the life and afterlife of Polish-German politician Rosa Luxembourg, after whom the place and adjoining street of the exhibition site are named. Under three maple trees, a block of ice dimensioned to melt within approximately 24 hours is situated on a carpet of round-leaved mint, a plant that as well as the trees and other plants on the urban green can be found in the herbarium Rosa created while imprisoned. In the heart of the block – readable with difficulty – is a text excerpt from Heiner Müller’s Hamlet Machine talking about the woman rather than the politician.

Ease Your Window Down is to be read as an original and aktive endevour to combine history, science and visuelle culture in ordert to shift perception.