Nowhere Feels Like Home at the Old University: Estela Barilaitè's Art in Eppingen
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Between Home and Memory: Estela Barilaitè's Poetic Image Spaces in Eppingen
With the exhibition Nowhere Feels Like Home, the City and Half-timbered Museum "Old University" in Eppingen opens a sensitive space for contemporary art, identity, and belonging. Estela Barilaitè connects motifs from Lithuania and Germany in her charcoal drawings to fragmented spaces where personal memory and social experience overlap.
Drawings as Lived Traces
The artist's works are based on photographs from the summer family environment in Lithuania. From these, drawings emerge that do not rely on idyll but on the visible work within a community. Hands, gestures, plants, and architectural allusions condense into a contemplation of the work that takes the everyday as a culturally charged motif seriously.
Erasures, Closeness, and the In-Between
Barilaitè's imagery deliberately works with gaps. It is precisely this openness that generates a quiet intensity: The transience of summer time, the fading of memory, and the feeling of a home that is never quite fixed become palpable in the fragments. Thus, an aesthetic experience arises that explains less than it resonates.
A Museum as a Resonance Space
The City and Half-timbered Museum "Old University" provides the appropriate context for this exhibition. The building showcases its permanent collection on local history and half-timbered construction over more than 800 square meters while regularly presenting temporary exhibitions on contemporary art. The exhibition thus convincingly fits into a place where history and the present enter into a productive dialogue.
Free Admission and Ideal for a Focused Encounter with Art
The exhibition is on view during the museum's regular opening hours from Tuesday to Sunday, each from 2 to 4 PM. Admission is free. Those interested in drawing, artistic memory practices, and questions of home in the 21st century will find here a calm, thoughtfully curated art experience with lasting impact.
Conclusion: Nowhere Feels Like Home invites a focused engagement with drawing, origins, and belonging. The exhibition promises quiet intensity, art historical depth, and a special view of the fragment as a form of image. A visit to Eppingen is definitely worth experiencing in person.
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