Laura Mahnke & Paula Hoffmann

Sisters in Crime (still) riding a Horse together

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Exhibition from September 11th – October 04th, 2025.

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Thursday September 11th

4pm – soft opening

7pm – toast

 

Sunday September 14th

12pm - Informal get together and talk about artist friendships and the role of art in the current situation, with other artists and the audience while we produce horses from clay

 

Saturday September 27th  

4pm – Workshop écriture automatique

7pm – Dinner  registration required, visitors can book one or both events, via howdy@mahnkehoffmann.com

 

Saturday October 4th 

3pm to 6pm – Finissage, Cake & Coffee

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With Sisters in Crime (still) riding a Horse together, Mahnke/Hoffmann celebrate their joint artistic production and complicity. Democracy, solidarity, and respect are essential values that increasingly need to be nurtured and defended. The central theme of the exhibition are multiple flags bearing the inscription YES! - Yes to cooperation. Yes to dialogue. Yes to compromise.

Without having to agree on everything.

The exhibition emphasizes formats that involve the audience. The artists want to engage in an exchange about what visitors understand by complicity, what is important to them, and also what they are currently afraid of. In this way, Sisters in Crime can become a temporary place for encounter and an exhibition at the same time.

 

 

Laura Mahnke and Paula Hoffmann met as co-founders of the feminist collective Cake & Cash, which has been active since 2019. For a long time, the collective was exclusively involved in curatorial work. With Cake & Cash, Mahnke/Hoffmann have since been experimenting with forms of cooperation both internally and in their projects, for example at the Kunstverein Gastgarten, MOM art space, or the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. In 2022, they started working in collaboration for the temporary gallery space DIENST and announced their Duo shortly after. With backgrounds in painting, sculpture, ceramics and writing, Mahnke/Hoffmann explore tensions between strength and fragility in varying visual volumes, and produce multi-layered spatial installations such as WET (2023) and Sisters in Crime riding a Horse together (since 2024).