Marta Dyachenko - Graue Strömung (Hydro)

Show & Culture

Guided tour of Marta Dyachenko’s exhibition led by its curator, Charlotte Masse. Marta Dyachenko’s work explores the relationships between architecture, collective memory and contemporary sociopolitical issues. Through imaginary landscapes composed of models, sculptures and installations, she examines how the built environment shapes our historical and cultural understanding of the world. Her approach combines concrete and fictional elements to reveal the tensions between construction, ruin and reconstruction. By paying attention to the visible and invisible traces left by time, Dyachenko opens up a critical reflection on our relationship with space and history, and on the ways society constructs — and erases — the territories it inhabits. For more than a century, iron dictated the shape of Esch: its urban planning, its working rhythms and its collective memory. Beneath this industrial development, the river disappeared — channelled, covered over and erased from the heart of the city. Today it survives as a remnant: a caged watercourse, a silent witness to an era that sought to dominate it.