Durchdringung
P. Staff
October 11, 2025 – February 1, 2026
Opening: Friday 10 October, 7pm
Bonner Kunstverein is proud to present Durchdringung, the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by artist, filmmaker, and poet P. Staff. Their most expansive exhibition to date assembles newly commissioned works, a choreography of dense spatial atmospheres across the entire venue, a public program, and a publication.
A culmination of the artist’s longstanding engagement with constitutive, visible and invisible registers of violence and agency, Durchdringung—penetration—evokes the forces that enter, infiltrate, and transform: beams through tissue, armies through borders, laws through bodies, vision through opacity—each crossing leaving traces of power and exposure.
Exhibition reader
- Exhibition reader (EN) (PDF, 272.9 KB)
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P. Staff: Durchdringung, 2025. Exhibition view. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World, 2025. 24 holofans, each 65 cm, video, color, no sound, 5 Min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Skeleton, 2025. HD video, color, sound, 16 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Hormonal Fog (Kunstverein), 2025. Fog machine, herbal tincture. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World (Pages), 2025. Inkjet prints on rose-colored paper, each 29,7 × 21 cm. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World (Pages), 2025. Inkjet prints on rose-colored paper, each 29,7 × 21 cm. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World (Pages), 2025. Inkjet prints on rose-colored paper, each 29,7 × 21 cm. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Hormonal Fog (Kunstverein), 2025. Fog machine, herbal tincture. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Hormonal Fog (Kunstverein), 2025. Fog machine, herbal tincture. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World (Pages), 2025. Inkjet prints on rose-colored paper, each 29,7 × 21 cm. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World (Pages), 2025. Inkjet prints on rose-colored paper, each 29,7 × 21 cm. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Minimum World (Pages), 2025. Inkjet prints on rose-colored paper, each 29,7 × 21 cm. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Penetration, 2025. HD video, color, 5.1 surround sound, 20 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Penetration, 2025. HD video, color, 5.1 surround sound, 20 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Penetration, 2025. HD video, color, 5.1 surround sound, 20 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Penetration, 2025. HD video, color, 5.1 surround sound, 20 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.
P. Staff, Penetration, 2025. HD video, color, 5.1 surround sound, 20 min., looped. Photo: Niklas Goldbach.