When does the tour take place?

The tour begins on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at 2 PM.

Where does the tour take place?

The event location is the Kunstverein Augsburg at Vorderen Lech 20 in 86150 Augsburg.

Which exhibition is being presented?

The focus is on the video installation RUNNING AWAY IS EASY, IT´S THE LEAVING THAT´S HARD by Mauricio Hölzemann and Pierre-Yves Delannoy.

How long does the video work last?

The video installation has a runtime of approximately 60 minutes.

Is the event covered?

Yes, the tour takes place inside the Kunstverein Augsburg.

Discover RUNNING AWAY IS EASY: Memories, Home, and Farewell at the Kunstverein Augsburg

Name: Guided Tour of the Exhibition RUNNING AWAY IS EASY, IT´S THE LEAVING THAT´S HARD
Start: 2026-10-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-17T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Kunstverein Augsburg

Saying goodbye as an artistic experience: Guided tour at the Kunstverein Augsburg

The guided tour of the exhibition RUNNING AWAY IS EASY, IT´S THE LEAVING THAT´S HARD offers a focused approach to the approximately one-hour video installation by Mauricio Hölzemann and Pierre-Yves Delannoy. Central themes include memories of rural origins, queer biographies, and the difficult movement between leaving, belonging, and conscious farewell.

Video art between documentation, memory, and fiction

The exhibition features a video work created in 2025 in color, HD, 16:9, and stereo. The two artists return together to formative places of their childhood and youth: to Filderstadt in Baden-Württemberg and to Châlons-en-Champagne in France. From playgrounds, village wells, fields, and country roads, the places become sites of poetic contemplation, where personal history and societal issues intertwine.

Home as an ambivalent space of memory

The installation examines why people leave their rural or small-town homes, what hopes are associated with leaving, and what traces such a farewell leaves behind. Hölzemann and Delannoy combine documentary proximity with fiction, humor, and performative moments. Spontaneous statements, off-screen voices, and deliberately placed breaks create a fluid narrative form between authenticity and artistic construction.

Queer perspectives and aesthetic experience

As queer artists, Mauricio Hölzemann and Pierre-Yves Delannoy negotiate questions of identity, belonging, and self-appropriation. The exhibition atmosphere arises from shimmering summer days, seemingly uneventful landscapes, and a calm yet intense visual language. The aesthetic experience reveals how personal memory transforms places and how a past departure retrospectively gains new meaning.

Artistic collaboration and art historical context

The artist duo lives and works in Munich. Their performative-media works have been showcased at the Goethe-Institut Paris, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the AkademieGalerie Munich, and in space n.n. Pierre-Yves Delannoy connects architecture, media art, performance, and poetic material research; Mauricio Hölzemann brings experiences from acting, theater education, performance, and video art. Their joint practice thus moves at the intersection of time-based art, film, installation, and autobiographical research.

What visitors can expect

The tour focuses on the visual dramaturgy, narrative structure, and social dimensions of the video installation. It invites reflection on home, letting go, and the possibility of a retrospective farewell. The art experience combines cultural education with a sensual contemplation of the work and makes the exhibition an intimate, humorous, and simultaneously politically relevant space of memory.

Conclusion: An exhibition about the difficult act of letting go

The guided tour at the Kunstverein Augsburg promises an in-depth encounter with a compelling video installation about origin, identity, and farewell. Art enthusiasts will experience an exhibition that connects personal biography with social reality and reinterprets familiar places. Those looking to discover contemporary video art, queer perspectives, and poetic forms of memory should definitely visit this art experience live.