Image: Alexandra Grant, Gnaden Überlast/Grace Overload, (after Christine Ebner’s Engelthaler Schwesternbuch/Der Nonne von Engelthal Büchlein von der Genaden Uberlast, 1346; edited by Karl Schröder, 1871), work in progress, 2026 (Detail). Foto: Trevor Good © Alexandra Grant and carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid

Solo Show: Alexandra Grant: Ein Stern genügt, um an das Licht zu glauben at Neues Museum Nürnberg

  

Ein Stern genügt, um an das Licht zu glauben/One star is enough to believe in the light

Neues Museum Nürnberg
Klarissenplatz
90402 Nürnberg, Germany
https://www.nmn.de/de/programm/ausstellungen/alexandra-grant.htm

Museum hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 10am – 6pm
Thursday 10am – 8pm
Closed on Mondays

Exhibition dates: July 16 to October 11, 2026
Opening: July 16, 2026 at 7pm
Conversation with Alexandra Grant, Fatma Aydemir, Pauline Füg, Olivia Wenzel, and Rasha Khayat, moderated by Vance Byrd: July 17, 2026 at 7pm
Closing event with Table Stories: October 11, 2026 at 5:30pm

Ein Stern genügt, um an das Licht zu glauben/One star is enough to believe in the light is Alexandra Grant’s first solo museum show in Germany. Grant created a new body of work for the Neues Museum Nürnberg (NMN) which highlights the role women have played – and continue to play – in the history of German writing and literature.

For the exhibition, Grant presents eight large-scale works on paper, each based on a text by a historical or contemporary female writer: Christina Ebner (Nuremberg, 1277–1356), Maria Catharina Stockfleth (Nuremberg, 1633–1692), Gisela Elsner (Nuremberg, 1937–1992), Hélène Cixous (Oran, Algeria, 1937), Fatma Aydemir (Karlsruhe, 1986), Rasha Khayat (Dortmund, 1978), Pauline Füg (Leipzig, 1983; based in Nuremberg), and Olivia Wenzel (Weimar, 1985).

Through these works, Grant explores themes including how women have constituted themselves as subjects through writing throughout history, often in conflict with cultural and societal expectations; immigration to, emigration from, and movement across Germany; spiritual experience and expertise; depression and hope; war; poverty and access to resources; humanism; and discrimination.

“Four of the eight authors she focused on are from or live in Nuremberg, a city currently reflecting on its history as a city of literature. This exhibition is the first in a German museum to present an artist who bridges the gap between visual art and literature.” — Neues Museum Nürnberg

Alexandra Grant, Le Dedan Dehors, (The Inside Outside, after Helene Cixous’s Ce qui n’était jamais arrivé, 2025), 2026. Fonts: Superclarendon by Ray Larabie; Baskerville by John Baskerville, revival by Robert Slimbach;
 Bodoni 72 Oldstyle by Giambattista Bodoni, edited in 1994 by Janice Fishman and Jim Parkinson; 
Academy Engraved LET by Vince Whitlock; Big Caslon by Matthew Carter; Ernestine Pro by Nina Stössinger and Hrant Papazian; American Typewriter by Joel Kaden and Tony Stan; Athelas by Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione; 
Rockwell by Frank Hinman Pierpont. Silk screen, colored pencil, marker, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and sumi ink on paper. 390 x 450 cm.
Above: Alexandra Grant, Gnaden Überlast/Grace Overload, (after Christina Ebner’s Engelthaler Schwesternbuch/Der Nonne von Engelthal Büchlein von der Genaden Uberlast, 1346; Edited by Karl Schröder, 1871),, 2026. Font: made from scans of Visions, 1317–1352, held in Stadtbibliothek im Bildungscampus Nürnberg, Cent. V, App. 99. English translation: Google Translate. Silk screen, colored pencil, markers, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and sumi ink on paper. 390 x 450 cm. Below: es ist politisch, (after Pauline Füg’s “Sunglasses,” 2025), 2026. Font: Bouclées by Elliot Thomas. Original text. Silk screen, colored pencil, marker, acrylic paint, acrylic ink and sumi ink on paper. 390 x 450 cm.

A public conversation will led by Vance Byrd, Presidential Associate Professor of German Studies and Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, on July 17 at 7pm with Grant and the writers Fatma Aydemir, Pauline Füg, Rasha Khayat, and Olivia Wenzel. Tickets are available here: https://nmn-tickets.de/#/product/event/1266 

On October 11, the closing event for the exhibition will feature Alexandra Grant, literary agent Sharmaine Lovegrove, and Christine Künzel, Chair of the International Gisela Elsner Society, as part of Table Stories—a dinner gathering that creates a space to discuss culture. The event will include a museum tour, conversation and meal. Tickets are available here: https://tablestories.bigcartel.com/product/table-stories-3

The exhibition is curated by Thomas Heyden. The large-scale paper for the project was provided by Hahnemühle FineArt.