With the exhibition Nothing but the truth, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen presents works by John Hussain Flindt that engage with family archives as well as the subjectivity of memory and documentary images. Drawing on personal materials and narratives, Flindt connects family histories with broader historical contexts and asks how memory is constructed, preserved, and made mediated visually.

At the centre of the exhibition is a series of analogue black-and-white photographs of toys and objects that are fragments of familiarity from his own family life and childhood. They are complemented by installation works in which vulnerability and the selective nature of personal memory are no more than suggested: a model of Flindt’s mothers’ home only becomes visible through a lens mechanism and points to the fragile relationship between intimacy and disclosure.

A video work and a further photographic series take the exhibition to Miri, Malaysia. The starting point is an unfilmed screenplay written by Flindt’s grandfather, who worked as a doctor at the Shell Oil-operated Miri General Hospital in Sarawak between 1948 and 1952. The work connects personal family history with questions of colonial infrastructures, social hierarchies, and cultural encounters.

Photo: © 2026, John Hussain Flindt

JJohn Hussain Flindt studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (2018–2023) and at Chelsea College of Arts in London (2013–2016). His recent solo exhibitions include belly to belly at Parfümerie, Frankfurt, and Shadows or Objects at Jean Claude Maier Galerie, Frankfurt. His installation works have been presented, among others, at Kasseler Dokfest (2022) and as part of the prestigious Lichter Art Award in Frankfurt (2023). Internationally, he has exhibited at HAUS KCH in Kuching, MACRO in Rome, Fragile in Berlin, and the Goethe-Institut Dublin, among others.

The exhibition Nothing but the truth was realized with the support of Ritter Sport and OEW.

The exhibition opens on September 25 at 7:00 p.m. with welcoming remarks by Ulrike Shepherd (Chairwoman) and an introduction by Marlene A. Schenk.

This will be followed at 7:30 p.m. by an artist talk featuring Leonie Chima Emeka and John Hussain Flindt in conversation with Marlene A. Schenk.