This book documents “Teamprojekt Moabit” by the artist Gustav Kluge; his point of departure was a group portrait on the subject of torture.

The connection between torture and the group portrait refers back a work by the artist from 1995, a group portrait of three survivors of Neuengamme concentration camp that he used to create a documentary portrait on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Curiohaus trials.

Shortly afterwards, the ideas of a group portrait of the team of psychologists at the therapeutic centre for victims of torture arose, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the founding of the centre.

The picture created brings several levels and elements together; it is a group portrait, and, at the same time, contains elements that refer beyond this, and which universalise the connection between torture and power on the one hand, and the relationship between art and society on the other.

biography

1947 born in Wittenberg/ Elbe in

1968-1974 studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts

1978-1985 taught at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts

since 1996 has taught at the Karlsruhe Federal Academy of Fine Arts

lives and works in Hamburg and Karlsruhe