Ursula Neugebauer

The catalogue 'Meer ohne Horizont' documents the works of Ursula Neugebauer from 2018 onwards usingphotographs and essays and is the third volume in a series entitled 'aus der Haut gefahren' and 'L'Inconnue',which began in 2006. The main part of the catalogue is the chapter 'black snow'.Since 1998 Ursula Neugebauer has regularly visited the Polish village of Dzwonów, formerlySchellendorf, in what was then Lower Silesia, where her motherwas born in 1931 and where she grew up until 1945. However, she neverreturned to her home village after her flight to western Germany anduntil her death in 1999. The current village dwellers originally stem fromUkraine, which was then eastern Poland and was claimed by the SovietUnion after World War II, accompanied by the forced resettlement of thePolish population. The work Black Snow associates sculptural and filmicelements based on years of research. My mother's silence and the storiesrelayed by the current villagers, with their own experiences of flight,overlap and permeate one another: an epigenetics that invasively includesthe surrounding vegetation and becomes an all-encompassing communityof fate.