With works by INAS HALABI, MOSES MÄRZ & STUDENTS AT LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY

Cartography does not merely depict the world, but actively shapes and structures it. As a tool of colonial expansion, it serves to define territories and delineate borders, reducing complex realities to seemingly objective grids. However, cartographic methods can also be used to expose power structures and to trace movements of resistance.

The group exhibition TRANS/VERSAL considers cartography not as an instrument of measurement but as a practice of relation. Moving transversally does not affirm borders but cuts across them. Here, maps are not read for orientation but for the connections they reveal—between places and times, ideas and lifeworlds, the past and the present. The artists INAS HALABI and MOSES MÄRZ together with STUDENTS AT LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY trace how geopolitical and sociohistorical relations are inscribed in and continue to inform landscapes, infrastructures, and discourses, including those of Lüneburg itself.

The exhibition is curated by LISA DEML and MARIE-SOPHIE DORSCH.


The annual programme at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

INAS HALABI lives and works as an artist and filmmaker between Palestine and the Netherlands. Her practice is concerned with how social and political forms of power are manifested and the impact that over-looked or suppressed histories have on contemporary lives. Her works have recently been exhibited at the Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, USA, 2026); La Loge (Brussels, Belgium, 2025); Luleå Biennial (Sábme, Sweden, 2024); de Appel Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2023); and The Showroom (London, UK, 2022), among others.

MOSES MÄRZ is a researcher and mapmaker based in Berlin. His maps visualise geographies of knowledge by using a methodology based on the relational philosophy of Édouard Glissant and the editorial practice of the Chimurenga Chronic. He currently works as principal investigator in the Research Unit Collaborations at the University of Potsdam.