Hanna Krezlewska shares this view: For her, cemeteries tell stories about the lifestyles, values, beliefs, and artistic expression of the deceased.

Through engaging with these places, a deeper understanding of a people’s culture can be gained.
On her world travels, she therefore regularly visits cemeteries – in the exhibition, you will encounter Polish, German, Jewish, Maltese, and Japanese gravesites as well as historical memorial sites. The focus is not only on traditional mourning figures, but also on the diversity of symbolic forms of expression.

Especially in November, around All Saints’ Day, it becomes particularly clear how differently those left behind deal with pain and loss – and the role cemeteries play as places of remembrance.

Robert Koch’s linocuts are deeply rooted in the visual language of antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The artist draws his inspiration from mythological narratives, motifs of death, and archetypal figures—themes that played a central role in both eras. In his works, classical myths meet a contemporary form of expression: the linocut, whose clear contrasts and graphic sharpness lend the motifs a special intensity.

Koch’s works such as “Dance of Death I,” “Ker, Daughter of Nyx“, “Thanatos“, and “Niobe’s Youngest Daughter and Apollo” take up central figures and symbols from Greek mythology. The artist is not concerned with simply illustrating traditional stories, but rather with an emotional and spiritual exploration of existential themes such as death, transience, guilt, and redemption.

His works such as “Jupiter“, “Amathriel” and “Animus” also expand this mythological cosmos. They connect ancient deities with angels, inner parts of the soul, and universal forces. In this way, Koch creates a unique visual world that mediates between cultures, eras, and concepts of this world and the next.

The linocut prints are striking not only for their precise craftsmanship, but also for the dense atmosphere they create – an interplay of light and shadow, of life and death.