Anna Schimkat's artistic work moves on the border between sculpture and sound. Whether as performance or installation, in the respective context she examines site-specific processes, causes and laws of natural, social and culturally created reality.

As part of her scholarship, Anna Schimkat is developing a new sound installation that deals with the Rhine as a cultural place of remembrance and a mythically charged symbolic space in Europe. Wiesbaden, located in the heart of the Rhine region, forms the starting point for the compositional and installation-based development of the project. In the Bellevue Hall, a place is to be created that interweaves sound, space and memory - as a sensual approach to the river as a carrier of European history and imagination.

For centuries, the Rhine has been a border, conflict zone and projection surface for European identities. Mythical figures such as the Loreley or Undine reflect fears, desires and man's ambivalent relationship to nature and the unknown. The installation combines historical and literary narratives with recorded sounds along the river - from its source in Switzerland to its mouth in Rotterdam - including water noises, calls from ships' horns or the roar of bridge traffic mixed with the sounds of self-developed object instruments - to create a multi-layered acoustic and visual topography.