Quem carrega a Chama? / Who Carries the Flame? Collage and Feminism: From Hannah Höch to Contemporary Collage
📅 Friday, May 1, 2026 | 1:00 PM
📍 Residency Unlimited, 360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY
As part of our Meet Over Lunch series, please join us for a lecture-performance by São Paulo-based RU curator-in-residence, visual artist, researcher, and educator Manuela Eichner (
@manuelaeichner ).
At this occasion, Manuela will present the concluding phase of “Quem carrega a Chama? / Who Carries the Flame?” – a project marked by her extensive research on the renowned German artist Hannah Höch (1889–1978), a central figure in the development of collage both as a technique and as a critical approach to questions of gender, politics, and nature. “Quem carrega a Chama? / Who Carries the Flame?” brings together historical and contemporary perspectives, revisiting Höch’s ideas while tracing their resonance in the work of Brazilian artists today.
Since 2017, Manuela has been dedicated to investigating the traces left by this pioneer of feminist collage. Trips to Berlin (2018, 2023) allowed her to visit Höch’s home in Heiligensee and access the Estate of Hannah Höch at the Berlinische Galerie; now in New York, she is finalizing her research at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which holds a foundational collection of Hannah Höch’s work, particularly her influential Dada-era photomontages.
Manuela’s lecture-performance “Quem carrega a Chama? Who Carries the Flame?” completes a carefully constructed cartography of Hannah Höch’s life and artistic production, offering a deeper understanding not only of her trajectory but also of a key aspect of collage history: re-existence as a strategy of continuity, resistance, and reinvention.
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Image 1: Who Carries the Flame?, Digital collage, Manuela Eichner, 2026
Image 2: Photo credit:Debby Gram, 2026
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