Erbgericht

Artist Andrea Grützner (born 1984 in Pirna) has been working on her photographic series at the Erbgericht Polenz, a country inn in eastern Saxony, for a decade. The building has fascinated her since childhood, and its name refers to some regional cultural history concerning jurisdiction, which goes back to the Middle Ages. Its interior contains a historically evolved collage of materials and spaces that have been linked to the memories and emotions of the locals since its opening in 1898. A...