Chicks on the March
( … Hühnern ins Ungewisse)

Court exhibit

Revivre Lacan

The clear view of the copy of the work by Gustave Courbet L'Origine du monde (1866) is only possible in a specific, physical interaction with the showcase object.

Act to Descend a Staircase

The series of artworks by Marcel Duchamp (Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912, oil on canvas), Hans Richter (Dreams That Money Can Buy, Experimental Film, 1947) and Gerhard Richter (Ema (Nude on a Staircase), 1966 , Oil on canvas) has been continued in 2010 in Act Descending a Staircase.

Pussyhat

The hat was made for Women's March 2017. After years of Donald Trump's presidency, the certainty is now solidifying that it must be secured under a bell jar, always available for the next action.

Sculptress’ Icon

To recreate the urinal (Fountain, 1917), the famous concept work of art by Marcel Duchamp, is an unspectacular idea. Size, dimensions, material, tool marks, curves pressed with the fingers speak a different language than an industrial product created using the technically perfected porcelain casting process as used by Duchamp and which has become an art-historical icon. In contrast to Duchamp's purely intellectual approach, with Sculptress`Icon (2020) the additional inclusion of the handicraft of a female artist is essential.

The auratic object stands on the pedestal. Sculptress`Icon cleverly tries to play around this. The aura of the icon Fountain deceives lying submissively, but remains. A symbol of male intimacy in the communally experienced privy, center of agreements and powerful contracts. One hundred years later, still an issue. It shows that the high-speed pull of modernity of the last century makes us detentive, demands to work off all the new thoughts, ideas, (re)forms. The artist adds almost gymnasial and yet defiantly the own, contemporary point of view - we are also someone nowadays.

Overall

A gender-ambiguous garment was chosen for the work Overall (2019). As a bearer of the artist logo and femininity pictogram, it reflects attitude and philosophy. The workwear character is gender neutral. It is about the potential for activity in the sense of Joseph Beuys' social sculpture. In contrast to Beuys Filzanzug (1970), however, the overall could be worn by everyone and convey a concept in everyday life.

Heavy Cheesecake

Rebiya

Transcultural Research /
Made in Turkey

Park of the Historical Summer Residence of the German Ambassador in Turkey, Tarabya / Istanbul. In the mobile studio, regional marble was hewn at selected locations in the park.

Artistic products are not only the resulting sculptures, but also videos and photos of the actions. The creation becomes a performance.

Time Capsule

Man at bus stop, waiting

A toy found in Rwanda / Africa recalls artistic positions of modernism - but also Paul McCarthy's BlockHead. In this work, the oversized, inflated, art market-driven pop version of McCarthy is returned to the purist reality of an African wooden toy and a cryptically spiritual Duchamp-esque titling.

Das Fremde im Eigenen,
das Eigene im Fremden

Xalderang

A Chinese desert mountain formation lent itself to a remake of the work The Wanderer over the Sea of Fog, 1818 by Caspar David Friedrich.

Patient

The sculpture PATIENT was created on the Bosphorus in Istanbul in the immediate vicinity of the President of Turkey. The history of the weakened Ottoman Empire at the end of the 19th century is only part of the thoughts associated with the work.

I wanna be like you

iFiction

In the iFICTION video, the camera eye slowly moves along rooms in a furniture store. Throughout the rooms, there are members of a family of five, women and girls, placed in various constellations. They are nearly motionless and are not engaging with one other. Acoustically, they seem as if they are in a submarine. Menacing sonar noises can be heard.

Passat

e.p.o.x.i.

Believe in Art
(family of imperfect objects)

Each of the objects couldn‘t make it to a piece of art by themselves over years. Finally, as a body of work with similar histories, they have joined together as family of imperfect objects. In this paricular museum, they where placed in between the white cube exhibition rooms, in a vacany which proposes freedom of seriousness.

Weißabgleich
white balance

Schweißtuch
sweat cloth

Tree

Es gibt doch nur das Leben –
den tod gibt es doch gar nicht
Is it not only life that exists and death not at all

A deserted apartment creates the frame of the video - an apartment that has been formed by collected objects over decades. The history of the inhabitants was inscribed via these objects of various international cultures. Medication lying around, crutches and similar things suggest that a sick person must have lived here, apparently having recently left the apartment and passed away. The observer experiences the identity of this person while moving through the rooms. Fragments of music are reminiscent of the culture and times of when the furniture was created. A continuous rhythm, similar to that of a heartbeat, drifts through the video, although the process of fatigue sets in and at some point there is no hope for further insight. Finally, the observer want to be released.

Delicate Object

Es gibt doch nur das Leben
there is only life that exists

A small, historical Chinese ceramic rabbit, exhibited in the British Museum in London, inspired this object, which also merges portraits of people from Western cultures.

The Miracle of Kiel

Dobermann, kariert

Happy 4th of July

Panel painting

nothing left to loose

An acoustic installation is placed in a safety zone between the house and the street. Six residents of Los Angeles speak in monologue form about their fears.

Wissant (Opal Coast, North of France)

This ear, carved in chalk limestone, was created on the Atlantic coast of northern France, also known as the Côte d'Opale, as part of a self-organised symposium with fellow stone sculptors.