We would like to cordially invite you to the exhibition REHEARSALS in Mainz at the Apollo Show Room of the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts. Every year, Balmoral curates the exhibition there. The exhibition is organized in close collaboration with the Kunsthochschule Mainz. This time, we are showcasing works by two fellowship recipients from the current year 2026: Hanieh Fatouraae and Kitso Lynn Lelliott.
Gathered at the end of the world, this rehearsal, composed of images, objects and breathing life, forms a portal. As an act of sensing out the works and their presence question how to build new aesthetic sensibilities; learning from the soil – wet or burned. The ground asks: How can alliances of care be formed and forged, using methodologies that are spiritually tangible while untouchable by violence through reflecting on situated specific encounters.
Hanieh Fatouraee’s works navigate along inherited cosmological intelligences and infrastructures. Both the figure of the vessel, its containing and porosity, and the leakage through an uncertain threshold, offer new ways of thinking with space. Ways of being in a realm of encounters while resisting the urge to be transparent.
Kitso Lynn Lelliott’s works consider the conditions of possibility for coming into being, in relation and reciprocity, beyond the human. In thinking with and through blackness, from a commons that holds the ancestral alongside other planetary kin networks that have been variously allowed presence, or not, her work becomes ritual and prayer, remembering earthly entanglements surfaced through a poetics of becoming.
6.10.26 / 7 p.m.
OPENING
Welcome Note by Dr. Katharina Fink (Director Artist Residency Schloss Balmoral), and Agnes Schofield (Curator, Artist Residency Schloss Balmoral) Kitso Lynn Lelliott and Hanieh Fatouraee are present.
29.10.26 / 7 p.m.
FINISSAGE
Audiovisual Performance by
Hanieh Fatouraee & Farzad Golghasemi
followed by an after show party
Many thanks for the curatorial support provided by Gloria Igabe (Mainz Academy of Fine Arts) and Niklas Obermann (curator-in-residence, Artist Residency Schloss Balmoral)
Further Information:
https://kunsthochschule-mainz.de/rehearsals-hanieh-fatouraee-kitso-lynn-lelliott/