Echa ‘2025 - a film by Benjocki/Verhoeff in Noordbrabants Museum

The Noordbrabants Museum presents an exhibition of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s work, highlighting its relevance to world history and contemporary issues. Emerging after WWII and during Soviet rule in Eastern Europe, her art explores themes like trauma and humanity's relationship with nature.

The exhibition features her work alongside contemporary artists such as Anish Kapoor, Kimsooja, Marlene Dumas and Kader Attia and includes a new dance performance by Nicole Beutler and a new film by Kristina Benjocki and Stijn Verhoeff.

The film Echa (Polish for "echoes") was created specifically for this exhibition. It is a poetic reflection on the weight of history and the fragility of the natural world. Taking a cue from the memoir of Magdalena Abakanowicz, the film follows a character who exists in shifting forms—as a child, an adult and an older woman—blurring the lines between past and present, self and inheritance .

Just as echoes linger in the landscape, traumas reverberate across generations. They shape our memories and define our connection to the environment. Yet, in confronting these echoes, the character begins to break away, forging a future untethered from the past. Echa is an ode to resilience, renewal, and the quiet defiance of rewriting one’s story.

https://www.stijnverhoeff.org/film/echa.html

https://www.hetnoordbrabantsmuseum.nl/bezoek/tentoonstellingen/magdalena-abakanowicz/