Reflections on dichotomy
flag project, temporary installation at the Gallery Lust & The Apple, Temple/GB, 2023
I developed the concept "Reflections on Dichotomy" starting from the very nature of a flag. A flag has only two sides and is therefore ideal to symbolize and question black and white thinking and simplifications. My flag is black on one side and white on the other. As soon as it is moved by the wind, both sides are visible. And depending on the light, the black doesn't look black but bright silvery while the white can turn into dark grey in the shade.
works 2017 - 2022
poem of pearls
participative installation, St. Elisabeth, Kassel, during documenta 15, 2022
Photo by Johannes Seyerlein
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Catalogue Poem of Pearls with texts by Christoph Baumanns, Birthe Blauth, Michael Gerber and Peter Zürcher, Martin Matl, Benita Meißner, Heinz Schütz.
German and English. Translation by Melanie Girdlestone. Photos by Johannes Seyerlein. Design, production BANKTM.
Edition Braus, Aufbau Verlage GmbH & Co. KG Berlin. ISBN 978-3-86228-238-8
celestial bodies
Fine Art Prints on Alu Dibond, 100 x 100 cm. 2020/21
TRANSMIGRATION
Installation 2019, approx. 80 polyethylene moulds and video projection, 38:05 min. loop, 400 cm high, 725 cm wide, 350 cm deep
A soul migration of countless different, unknown beings leaving their physical shells on the floor.
Installation view, The Big Sleep,
Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019.
Photo: Florian Holzherr
COLLECTIVE DREAMS
hd video, 70:20 min., 2019, live performance with the munich modern jazz orchestra
A cosmological fantasy in nine chapters
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8 VOICES
interactive 8-channel hd video installation, 2019, Art Pastoral St. Paul, Munich
Eight women obviously talking about something serious and important. But you cannot hear them. Whoever wants to give them a voice, wants to hear their message, must go to a link on the Internet and enter a password there. Whenever a group is marginalized, silenced, it takes special effort to listen to them.
Installation view towards the altar
Photo: Johannes Seyerlein
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A & O
permanent installation, 2018, acrylic glass forms, backyard in Munich at Rotkreuzplatz
From nature to culture, from beginning to end.
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ELF KING
plotted forms on the wall, 17 polyethylen foam mats with cut out forms, monitor with video animation, 2018, 300 x 300 x 350 cm (LBH)
About the development of culture and meaning.
PLATO'S CAVE OR THE INFINITE ALPHABET
video installation, 38:32 min., Munich sewerage, 2017. Together with installations of Peter Gregorio and Susanne Pittroff (sugar pendulum)
STAY AWHILE!
YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL!
Officially anounced and authorized demonstration on Lenbachplatz. Installation with lion video loop 1:05 min. + demonstration signs, UNPAINTED goes Faustfestival, Munich, 2018.
The installation is about the infinity of ideas.
Photo: Werner Josten
A demonstration against the passing of time and a lion insatiably eating a never ending piece of meat.
Supernovas and other agglomerations
drawings, pencil or ink on paper, 2017f., different sizes
Elements from image noise combine and clump together to form new more complex shapes.
INTERFERENCES OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
drawings of noise, pencil on paper, 2017, different sizes
Elementary pieces of noise are interfering with other elementary pieces and start to interact.
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24 MULTIVERSES OF NOISE: FRAME 000:00:00:00:01 - 000:00:00:01:00
acryl glas objects in 24 glas boxes, 2017 ongoing, 8.27" x 6.22" x 11.69"/ 21,0 x 15,8 x 29,7 cm
ONE SECOND OF NOISE: FRAME 000:00:00:00:01 - 000:00:00:01:00
24 paintings, acryl on canvas, 2016/2017 ongoing, 5.25 x 6.56' / 160 x 200 cm
Each painting shows one frame of a video recording of white noise. 24 paintings represent one second.
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SAMPLE SHEETS OF AN INFINITE ALPHABET
foil on handmade paper, 2017 ongoing, 22" x 30.71" / 56 x 78 cm
The single elements of noise are infinitely diverse and of peculiar beauty.
works 2011 - 2016
SWAMP OF REALITY
Analog and digital painting, print and acryl on canvas, 2016, 4.27 x 7.55' / 130 x 230 cm
The closer you get, the more unclear it becomes.
WHITE NOISE MEMORIES
Digital paintings, 2013/2014, sizes between 3.94' x 5.91' / 120 x 180 cm and 4.27 x 7.55' / 130 x 230 cm
Each image is like a flash of light on a blurred moment of memory that has been subjectively sharpened and magnified.
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On the fuzziness of our thinking
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
How far is our reality constructed through language?
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TEA FOR MADELEINE
Sound installation, 4:05 mins, table with a pot of lime blossom tea, two cups, a plate of madeleines, stools, headphones, 2015
A single trigger word brings to mind different relics of the past in two people. Instead of listening to the other person each drifts off into a very different world.
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HAMLET'S MILL
Animated high resolution video (2880 x 1080), 1-channel, with sound, 61 min, 2013
The sheep do not realize that the cosmic machinery may collapse at any moment causing a deluge. The work draws on late-Neolithic descriptions of the cosmos.
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DRIFTWOOD
Video, 1-channel, with sound, 15:35 min, 2011
We are confined to our mind like being in a house with no entrance and exit. Everything we see brings us into new spaces of our memory.
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TRAPPED
HD video, 1-channel, no sound, 27:07 min, 2011
Somebody is exploring an invisible barrier by touching it with his fingers. He leaves more and more fingerprints in the process. The longer the person tries to establish the nature of their confines, the more enclosed they become. Finally, the surface is completely covered in fingerprints and the hands can no longer be seen.
Installation view: Projection onto the window of DG Kunstraum, Munich 2020-
Photo: Gerald von Foris
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ETSI OMNES EGO NON
The sentence “Etsi omnes ego non” (“Even if all others..., I will not.“) is repeated over and over by many different voices. It is initially cited with meaningful intonation by numerous individuals speaking at different times and speeds. Gradually a rhythm sets in. Not until everybody chants the sentence in time does it actually become comprehensible – but also somewhat absurd.
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KITCHNAPPING GOES SHOPPING
installation with 10 shopping carts, 10.000 flyers, video, diashow, performance, 2011
The exhibition space was situated in a 1970s shopping mall. Opposite it is a large discount store. 10,000 flyers were produced. They presented works of art in the look of supermarkets leaflets publicising special offers.
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THE GIFT
Interactive HD-video installation, no sound, 2011
When the visitor reaches for the gift, it is handed over. The content of the gift packages remains open.
Installation view: 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, Dez 2011 - Jan 2012. Photos by Thomas Jaeckel and Werner Josten
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REFLECTIONS
Permanent installation across five storeys of House of St John building (Johannesfoyer) in Saarbrücken, Germany, 2011
The ground floor shows images of sheep on a sunny meadow. These are reflected in the water on the second floor of the building, dissolving and transforming more and more as the observer moves to the higher floors. The work was inspired by the neoplatonic concept of the immaterial light soul, which strives to escape the prison of the material body and rise to the sky.
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works 2003 - 2010
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THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
Interactive installation for two places, with sound, 26:21 min, security camera, black box with orange cotton, 2010
The screen at place A shows visitors the fun that appears to be happening at place B, where a group of people open a large box marked “Hare”. Spontaneously, they decide to use its contents to create an over-sized hare of their own. When the onlooker from place A goes to place B to join the fun, s/he finds the same people now appear to be building the hare at place A.
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THE SIRENS
Sound installation, 9:39 min, 2010/2016
The spoken piece for four voices is made from wishes and descriptions from personal ads in a German newspaper. From their interweaving voices our current ideals gradually develop, showing what we believe about the way men and women should look, be and behave.
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Installation view: Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle München, 2015
The portraits of seven men and seven women gradually change into the digitally constructed portraits of "Adam" and "Eve".
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The "Secret Performance" is not announced. Seven men and seven women identically dressed mix under the visitors of an opening, - usually unnoticed.
Photos: Werner Josten
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BRAINWASH
Sound installation, loop, 114 min, 2009
Employees, or “human resources”, are deployed to help companies meet their goals. They are supposed to function perfectly. Corporate guidelines and values tell them how. A speaker reads the corporate values and guidelines of the companies listed on the German stock exchange in the dry and smooth style of a newscaster.
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1001 SECRETS
Installation, interactive project, performance, ongoing since 2008
1001 secrets are collected. As soon as they are complete, they will all be betrayed. The envelopes with the secrets will be opened and the secrets printed out on large posters in Braille. The 1001 secrets will be read out by a blind person in a public performance.
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CHRONOS' SONG
Animated video, 1-channel, with sound, loop, 2:08 min, 2008
A man is sitting in a camper van. His eyes are closed and the glass in the windows around him is frosted. He moves in time with the sound of dripping water. Or maybe it’s the dripping water that moves in time with him.
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PORTRAIT OF A MAN
4-channel video loops, different lengths, (2:03 min, 1:29 min, 2:01 min, 3:11 min), no sound, 2007
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THE FROG QUEEN
Animated HD video, 1-channel, no sound, 7:00 min, 2007
The actress immerses herself in the emotional world of the princess in the fairytale of The Frog Prince. The story is told by means of her facial expressions.
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HEIDILAND
Animated video, 1-channel, no sound, 10:00 min, 2007
The video represents a fantastic and playful history of a mountain landscape with quotations from the history of art.
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Room Without A View
Video loop, 1-channel, without sound, 6:45 min, 2006
The scene is a small hotel on an industrial estate in the countryside. A morning photograph from the window of one of the guest rooms fades into an evening picture of the same view. The result is something linear that looks like time but actually consists of two points with nothing in between.
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SAMMY, THE FERRYMAN
Animated video, 1-channel, no sound, 5:07 min, 2005
The video shows a symbolic trip into the realm of the dead. The same two pictures alternate at three-second intervals. The surroundings fade in the dark and the colour and life seep out of the figures. Finally the figures grow rigid, illuminated by a cold, otherworldly glow.
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GUARDED PARKING MARRAKESH
Video, 1-channel, no sound, 6:55, 2003
In this film the action is imperceptible, yet the change unmistakable. During the course of the video
43 people and objects disappear - unnoticed.
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