Overbeck Gesellschaft presents Michaela Melián: Echo

Delayed, fragmented, and shaped by space and distance, an echo describes the phenomenon in which a sound does not fade away but returns as reverberation—a sound without a fixed origin, transformed through repetition. The exhibition ECHO is devoted to the afterlife of history(ies) in the present. In her artistic research, Michaela Melián traces the legacy of Julia Mann (née da Silva Bruhns), the Brazilian matriarch of the Mann family. At the Pavilion of the Overbeck-Gesellschaft and at Kulturkirche St. Petri in Lübeck, she unfolds a multilayered field of resonance composed of textiles, sculptures, projections, and sound. Through serial arrangements and sampling, visual and sonic patterns emerge that overlap, condense, and at the same time elude. Historical material remains fragmentary: ruptures, gaps, and absences are not resolved but instead deliberately