Lucy van Kuhl: Geschickt verpackt
Kulturhof Kloster Knechtsteden, Dormagen-Knechtsteden, Germany
17 €
We live in an age where packaging seems more important than content: a simple chocolate bar becomes an exclusive taste experience through advertising, a janitor gets the title of facility manager instead of a raise, and love no longer arrives as Cupid's random arrow but tailored and algorithm-based through Tinder and Parship.
German Heinz Günter suddenly dons a striped shirt and beret during a holiday in France, then wonders why nobody sees him as Jean Pierre, even with a baguette under each arm… Packaging isn't everything, after all.
Lucy van Kuhl packages her insights in her fifth programme with remarkable skill: absurd observations are wrapped in gentle piano sounds, tiny observations magnified through a poetic lens, and the melancholy of a nursing home transforms into a wild party for the over-80s.
Delicate melancholy meets raucous nonsense, classical piano meets boogie woogie. If you think that doesn't harmonize - Lucy's exuberant imagination is a gleaming ribbon that holds it all together and - very cleverly packaged.











