GOD’S WORK
Masina Frank & Ella Konefal
Friday, March 6, 2026 - Sunday, April 19, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2026 6-10pm
Opening Reception: Friday, March 6th | 6pm-10pm
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The notorious 1937 Nazi propaganda exhibition Entartete Kunst – Degenerate Art – sought to mock and condemn modernist, expressionist, and non-conformist artists by making an example of their work; the Third Reich seized over 5,000 “degenerate” artworks from public and private collections and exhibited 650 of them as examples of decadence, weakness of character, mental disease, and racial impurity. Whatever didn’t sell was burned. These works were positioned in direct opposition to those deemed adequately German in their logical clarity and purity, exhibited in the concurrent Great German Art Exhibition. Some artists were represented in both shows.
In GOD’S WORK, Masina Frank and Ella Konefal turn these historic exhibitions over and over like crystals in the strange light of our present moment. They collaboratively digest and decompose the catalog, floorplan, iconography, and history of the Degenerate Art show through material experimentation and social practice, culminating in a group exhibition in a warehouse in Southwest Philly (SOUL STAKE activations on March 20, March 28, April 11, April 17) that invites artists to channel or embody a work from the original Degenerate catalog. GOD’S WORK dances through varied methodologies, spiraling around a central question: what’s at stake in the practice of facing the past?
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Masina Frank (@sirenoftheschuylkill) is an artist and event producer who harnesses research and performance practices towards deeply embodied historical inquiry.
Ella Konefal (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist who calls on tactile and conceptual strategies to feel at the edges and depths of palimpsestic time. Their collaborative work is a loving encounter with the unrelenting state of way-too-much-all-at-once-ness that surrounds us all.
