GOODS TO DECLARE (II)
In-situ installation with cereal bags and a german passport
Part of the group exhibition How to Build a Home
Schleicher Kunst Fabrik, Munich
2026
In-situ installation with cereal bags and a german passport
Part of the group exhibition How to Build a Home
Schleicher Kunst Fabrik, Munich
2026
No one chooses where to be born. It is a strange lottery that some take for granted and others dare not question, and which ultimately determines who can move about freely and who cannot. For many, life begins amidst conflict, scarcity and displacement, whilst for others, access to food, security and rights is a given.
In this installation, dozens of transparent cereal bags, almost identical, ordinary and run-of-the-mill, whisper the promise of nourishment. Only one contains a prize, not a toy, not a sticker. A document capable of redrawing a life.
Here, the German passport is not a symbol of belonging to a homeland, but an aspiration for safety, a portable shelter, a fragile guarantee of protection. It becomes the possibility of crossing a border, of escaping danger, of imagining a future.
In this installation, dozens of transparent cereal bags, almost identical, ordinary and run-of-the-mill, whisper the promise of nourishment. Only one contains a prize, not a toy, not a sticker. A document capable of redrawing a life.
Here, the German passport is not a symbol of belonging to a homeland, but an aspiration for safety, a portable shelter, a fragile guarantee of protection. It becomes the possibility of crossing a border, of escaping danger, of imagining a future.

Organised by PLATFORM Munich and curated by Magdalena Beyrich, Lisa Hirdes, Magdalena Kolar, Adrian Kunder and Julia Reidy
Photo © Paula Niño, Magdalena Jooss
