Vera Burmester | Lovers please kiss here

The work by Vera Burmester (born 1976 in Uelzen) is, above all, one thing: a vehicle for instructions to anyone who feels compelled to act upon them. Instructions for action have been an important format in conceptual art for many decades. They typically function both through actual execution and through the mere imagination of execution, which already sets emotional processes in motion—an almost inevitable effect, further amplified here by drawing on simple everyday contexts and appealing to longings, memories, and media experiences. Who doesn’t have their favorite movie kiss in the back of their mind? The instruction charges its location with such emotions and leaves readers with a changed perspective on their situation. The object is one of a series of ten. Two others hang in the courtyard of the Apollo Cinema in Linden and in the offices of the City of Hanover’s Cultural Affairs Department. The work is the property of Dietmar Engel, owner of Café Konrad. » Location: Knochenhauerstraße (facade of Café Konrad)