New Viewings #10

Sabine Groß deals with basic sculptural forms such as the cube, whose de-constructions she demonstrates. Her sculptures are presentations about presentations of bodies that are fixed as fine art.

Her Artbooks series, a sculptural continuation of the content conveyed by title and illustration, can also be understood in this sense. Through their simultaneous destruction and their transformation as three-dimensional object into a picture the ‚edited‘ books show a pointed re-reading of art history.

Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert is best known for his groundbreaking conceptual artwork, most notably his performative balloon sculptures.

His work has been exhibited at the MoMA in New York, the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) in Spain and Shanghai’s Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. His works can also be found in many art collections around the world, including those of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Malmö Konsthall, Berlin Landesmuseum, German Bundestag, and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City.

In times of the Corona pandemic, the balloon would be one of the safest places in the world. Quarantine par excellence. How would it be to live in such a balloon?

In her artistic practice, Susanne Lorenz frequently invokes motifs of sport and hunting.

Using appropriate materials, such as the rubber granulate used for tartan tracks, she transforms sports architecture and landscapes into aesthetic spaces of experience. If it is a matter of interventions in public space, these sometimes invite direct use, such as her Badeschiff in the Spree in the middle of Berlin, which was built at the beginning of the 2000s and is extremely popular.

Tilman Wendland quotes and underlines the architecture of exhibition spaces and their peculiarities in large-scale installations made of paper, cardboard and wood.

As a structuring and expansion of space, they become a playful-critical commentary on the white cube.