Opening: Sunday, 28 June, 2-6 pm

With works by INAS HALABI, MOSES MÄRZ & STUDIERENDEN DER LEUPHANA UNIVERSITÄT

Cartography does not merely depict the world, but actively shapes and structures it. As a tool of colonial expansion, it serves to define territories and delineate borders. However, cartographic methods can also be used to reveal power structures and to trace resistance movements. The works brought together in the exhibition TRANS/VERSAL map how geopolitical and sociohistorical relations are inscribed in and continue to inform landscapes, infrastructures and discourses, including those of Lüneburg itself.

The exhibition is curated by LISA DEML and MARIE-SOPHIE DORSCH.


The annual programme at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

INAS HALABI lives and works as an artist and filmmaker between Palestine and the Netherlands. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that overlooked or suppressed histories have on contemporary lives. Her works have recently been exhibited at the Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, USA, 2026); La Loge (Brussels, Belgium, 2025); Luleå Biennial (Sábme, Sweden, 2024); de Appel Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2023); and The Showroom (London, UK, 2022), among others.

MOSES MÄRZ is a researcher and mapmaker based in Berlin. His maps visualise geographies of knowledge by using a methodology based on the relational philosophy of Édouard Glissant and the editorial practice of the Chimurenga Chronic. He currently works as principal investigator in the Research Unit Collaborations at the University of Potsdam.