Judith Raum
Hedwig Roth
Exhibition dates: May 20–July 12, 2025

Conversation: Judith Raum & Catrin Lorch 
Friday, 20 June, 7 p.m.

The talk will be held in English.

Zilberman | Berlin
Schlüterstraße. 45
10707 Berlin, 1st floor

We warmly invite you to a conversation between artist Judith Raum and author and art critic Catrin Lorch on the occasion of Raum’s solo exhibition Hedwig Roth at Zilberman. Together, they will discuss the exhibition, in which Judith Raum makes the artistic work of her grandmother, Hedwig Roth, accessible to a broader public for the first time and simultaneously incorporates it into her own artistic practice. Drawing from Roth’s delicate papercuts and linocuts—works created within the context of a Protestant parsonage—they will talk about the relationship between craft and artistic practice, how to engage with her grandmother’s legacy, and the ambiguous, at times unsettling, moments within it. The conversation will reflect on Judith Raum’s research-based practice, which is devoted, among other things, to reintegrating the work of marginalized female artists into art history, and will connect to Catrin Lorch’s essay in the exhibition catalogue.

The exhibition catalogue, which will be published during the show’s run, includes the essay “Scissors at Hand” by Catrin Lorch, “The Night Life of Plants and Women” by poet and scholar Sumana Roy, and the introduction “Defiantly Blooming” by Lotte Laub.

Judith Raum (who was born in 1977, and lives and works in Berlin) studied fine arts at the Städelschule, Academy of the Arts in Frankfurt/Main, and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. Thereafter, she completed a master’s degree with honors in philosophy, art history, and psychoanalysis at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. In 2023, she won the Art in Architecture competition of the Jewish Museum Berlin. In 2015, she was awarded the Villa Romana Prize, and in 2021 she was a fellow of the German Academy in Rome at the Casa Baldi / Villa Massimo. She has had solo exhibitions presented inter alia in the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, the SALT Beyoğlu in Istanbul, and the Heidelberg Kunstverein. Her performances and works have been shown in the MoMA New York, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the ifa Gallery Berlin, the Grassi Museum Leipzig, the Istanbul Modern, the Kunsthaus Dresden, the Kunsthaus Hamburg, the steirischer herbst in Graz, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge (Massachusetts), the Tate Modern/USL in London, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, and the Halle für Kunst und Medien in Graz. Judith Raum also publishes regularly, most recently Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture (Hatje Cantz, 2024); bauhaus space (ifa-Galerie, 2017) and eser (Archive Books, 2015).

Catrin Lorch is an art historian, art critic, and author. She studied art history, journalism, German literature, and urban planning in Frankfurt, New York, and Bonn. In Bonn, she directed the Videonale, a festival for video art. She regularly writes for Frieze, Artforum, Metropolis M, Monopol, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, where she also works as an art editor. In 2006, she received the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for Art Criticism. Her publications include Jason Dodge: When I Woke Up There Was a Note in My Pocket Explained What Had Happened (Hatje Cantz) and Beat. Gabriele Basch (Verlag für moderne Kunst). She is currently the press spokesperson for the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

Image: Judith Raum, Untitled (Hedwig Roth), 2025. Two slide projection (80 slides each).