This Must Be The Place

Nina Čelhar, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Kyriaki Goni, Caro Jost, Malvina Panagiotidi, Helena Tahir 10 05 2025 – 21 06 2025

On the occasion of Various Others, BRITTA RETTBERG is pleased to present the group exhibition “This Must Be the Place” in collaboration with THE BREEDER (Athens) and RAVNIKAR (Ljubljana).

 

Featuring works by six female artists — Nina Čelhar, Laura Ní Fhlaibhín, Kyriaki Goni, Caro Jost, Malvina Panagiotidi, and Helena Tahir — the exhibition examines how history and identity are shaped and reinterpreted across time and space.

Through diverse artistic approaches, the artists explore the shifting relationships between material and immaterial worlds. From the intimate connections we form with everyday objects to ideological landscapes of space exploration, from forgotten traces of the past to hybrid bodies in flux, their works unravel tensions between presence and absence, memory and transformation. Each artist engages with language, myth, and collective narratives to challenge dominant perspectives and propose alternative ways of understanding history, place, and belonging.

Čelhar’s practice reflects on spatial atmospheres and emotional landscapes, while Ní Fhlaibhín draws from folklore and material culture to examine cycles of loss and renewal. Goni investigates the intersection of technology, data, and alternative knowledge systems, reimagining speculative futures. Jost works with traces of the past, exposing the imprints left by time, movement, and urban change. Panagiotidi weaves together esoteric and mythological references, probing the boundaries between reality and fiction. Finally, Tahir reflects on memory and perception, exploring how images and symbols accumulate and shift over time.

By bringing together these distinct yet interconnected perspectives, the exhibition “This Must Be the Place” invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between the personal and the universal, the inherited and the imagined, offering new ways to engage with the histories that shape us.

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Text: Nicolas Vamvouklis

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Kyriaki Goni

Martian Landscape V, 2022

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Kyriaki Goni

Martian Landscape VI, 2022

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Kyriaki Goni

Signal from Mars, 2022

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Malvina Panagiotidi

Description without place, 2024

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Helena Tahir

Facing South, 2024

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Helena Tahir

Annazah, 2024

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Helena Tahir

The Last Sector – Tracing Back My Fathers Unspoken Past, 2024

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Caro Jost

THE DOUBLE DONE, 2025

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Caro Jost

BEST PLACE - BEST CASE, 2025

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Caro Jost

LEERSTELLE, 2025

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Laura Ní Fhlaibhín

Cosmic architecture.....On a felled Pinus Pinea stump branded in red, across this very street were three barks, shields, splits, radiating fleshy peach and iridescent metallic haze hues that spoke in ways that resembled clouds and cartoons and the softest lushest gentlest soft power. Their softpower dazzled the hardpower brutes so as to wind them and thus shield themselves from the woodchipper that usually follows the fell., 2025

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Laura Ní Fhlaibhín

ghost room plans from Palazzo Massimo, 2025

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Laura Ní Fhlaibhín

the cherry picker becomes Simone Biles gymnast ballet wonder of supple limbs, 2025

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Laura Ní Fhlaibhín

Soft Power, 2025

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Nina Čelhar

Sunset (Shelved), 2024

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Nina Čelhar

PURPLE SHELVES MARCH, 2024

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Nina Čelhar

SOCKS BLACK LINES, 2024

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Nina Čelhar

FOLD I, 2024

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Nina Čelhar

FOLD II, 2024

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