Marysia Lewandowska

Institutional Healing is the outcome of a collaboration between London-based artist Marysia Lewandowska and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2020 – 2025. The publication, edited by Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Çağla Ilk and designed by Karl Stefan Andersson, brings together conversations, interviews, notes, archival traces, and reflections from Lewandowska’s sustained engagement with the institution. Amongst the contributors is Frances Morris, the former director of Tate Modern.

Central to the catalogue are materials related to Recording_1989 – an installation presented by Lewandowska at the Kunsthalle in the summer of 2023 curated by Misal Adnan Yildiz and Dominik Busch. Based on a rediscovered audio recording of a 1989 interview between Donald Judd and Jochen Poetter, the project explores the artist’s voice, its authority, and place within the institutional memory. The structure which references Judd’s sculptural language, has been developed together with architect Aram Mooradian. Through erecting a live recording studio, Lewandowska proposes the act of conversation as an active site of healing.