Häusliche Gewalt

White Ikea furniture, flowers on the table, the picture on the wall, a cuckoo clock … a home that could be anywhere reduced to the most essential elements — and a breeding ground for terrible pain and suffering at the same time. In his work, Markus Öhrn examines the banality and brutality of domestic violence without any dialogue.

Together with his artistic team he takes an expedition to the dark side of intimate relationship patterns, role models and gender stereotypes. Markus Öhrn worked with real statistics and based his work around cases of domestic violence that went to court. He used this material to develop a five-hour performance for two performers and a pianist.

Co-production Wiener Festwochen, Institutet, Wiesbaden Biennale 2018
Supported by Kulturrådet/Swedish Arts Council