Donika Kelly

A mist, a wind, the old dog and the hill

June 27 – September 13, 2026
Opening: June 26, 19:00

The Schaufenster presents A mist, a wind, the old dog and the hill by the American poet Donika Kelly, alongside a German translation by the artist Tanja Widmann.

The poem appears as a luminous text in a window of Kunstverein München and can be read day and night from the Hofgarten and the surrounding arcades.

Kelly’s contribution is the second installment in the Schaufenster series, developed in collaboration with Jason Dodge and his poetry imprint Fivehundred Places. It presents poems from forthcoming 500Places publications as temporary public installations before they appear in print.

Donika Kelly is the author of several poetry collections, including Bestiary (2016), The Renunciations (2021), and The Natural Order of Things (2025), all published by Graywolf Press. Her poetry has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review.

Tanja Widmann is an artist working in Vienna and Munich. Across print, sculpture, script, publishing, and forms of co-production, her work often approaches language as both material and structure. Recent projects include Derivatives Affaires at Schleuse, Vienna (2025), –1, plus One. Produced by Johannes Porsch at Cell Project Space, London (2025), and Lying Daughters. Produced by (New Toni Press, Berlin, 2025).

The project is realized with the generous support of the Danish Arts Foundation.

LED programming by Hanna Kaunicnik