{"id":29734,"date":"2026-06-22T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.villafreischuetz.org\/?p=29734"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:02:17","slug":"special-exhibition-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villafreischuetz.org\/en\/2026\/06\/22\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Special exhibition &#8220;The other side&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1921, the art collector Franz Fromm, who came from the G\u00f6ttingen region, purchased Villa Freisch\u00fctz. Most of his wealth derived from the fortune of his wife, Luisa Hilliger Y Vernal. She had been born in Peru as the daughter of the nitrate millionaire Johann Georg Christian Hilliger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, so good. Were it not for the other side of the story\u2014on the other side of the world. The prosperity of Europe\u2019s nitrate barons was built on the exploitation of largely Indigenous migrant workers. Though formally free, they lived and worked under conditions akin to slavery. This exhibition brings these two stories together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Created exclusively for the exhibition, the Argentine poet Ana Roc\u00edo Jouli and the Peruvian poet Juan Ignacio Ch\u00e1vez have written works of \u201cdocumentary poetry.\u201d Their poems are presented alongside archival materials and objects selected by the poets themselves, integrated into the permanent exhibition amid the splendid collection of art and decorative objects assembled by Franz Fromm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the first floor, objects, photographs, and texts trace the connections between the collector\u2019s family and the exploitative nitrate trade, raising the question of how we can live more justly today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition was curated by Ariane Karbe, Hannes Obermair, and Laura Steinhilber (assistant curator).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"710\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villafreischuetz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MJ25_LOGO_BLACK_CMYK.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29675\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3.9227185649736964;width:327px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villafreischuetz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MJ25_LOGO_BLACK_CMYK.png 710w, https:\/\/www.villafreischuetz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MJ25_LOGO_BLACK_CMYK-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1921, the art collector Franz Fromm, who came from the G\u00f6ttingen region, purchased Villa Freisch\u00fctz. Most of his wealth derived from the fortune of his wife, Luisa Hilliger Y Vernal. She had been born in Peru as the daughter of the nitrate millionaire Johann Georg Christian Hilliger. So far, so good. Were it not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-villa-freischuetz"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Special exhibition &quot;The other side&quot; - Villa Freisch\u00fctz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villafreischuetz.org\/en\/2026\/06\/22\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"villafreischuetz\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/en\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/22\\\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/en\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/22\\\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"villafreischuetz\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7b3a9841b73972383bbfd8fe963e5577\"},\"headline\":\"Special exhibition &#8220;The other side&#8221;\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-22T09:01:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-22T09:02:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/en\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/22\\\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/en\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/22\\\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/09\\\/Villa-Freischuetz-Einladung_Invito_06.09.2025.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News from the Villa Freisch\u00fctz\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/en\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/22\\\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/en\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/22\\\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.villafreischuetz.org\\\/en\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/22\\\/special-exhibition-the-other-side\\\/\",\"name\":\"Special exhibition \\\"The other side\\\" - 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