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In The Relief, Tarik Kiswanson continues to examine the repercussions and aftermath of war, trauma, and ruptures across historical events.
Opening on 8 May 2025, a date that marks the anniversary of the end of World War II, this solo exhibition centers on an extremely rare historical object: the “Steinway Victory Vertical,” or “G.I. Steinway”–an upright piano produced by Steinway & Sons in New York in 1942 and parachuted to U.S. and allied troops deployed across Europe to bring psychological relief through the traumatic events of the war. The piano is one of the earliest examples in history of recreational music making. The Steinway family, who originated from Seesen in Germany, kept deep ties to Hamburg, the only German city where the family maintained a factory after their emigration to New York in 1850.