“History is a Battleground”: Zuzanna Czebatul and the Pergamon Altar

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Zuzanna Czebatul is interested in the way monuments shape and perform power. Through her sculpture-based practice, she distorts architectural forms and cultural relics—columns, obelisks, busts—to reveal and complicate the narratives they once held. In the bucolic calm of her Brandenburg studio, and later among shrouded objects and scaffolding in Berlin’s long-closed Pergamon Museum, Czebatul spoke with Ignant about one of Europe’s most symbolically charged monuments—the Pergamon Altar. Her fragmented reimagining of the Hellenistic frieze takes centre stage in All the Charm of a Rotting Gum, which opened at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin.

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