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53°30’N (Edition)

53°N, Editions, Edmonton, Multiple

Edition: Gilded concrete models on a scale of  1: 400 of the sculp­tures 53°30’N at the new Kath­leen-Andrews-Garage in Edmonton on the occa­sion of the comple­tion of the work in December 2020

53°30’N (Edition)

53°30’N

53°N, Art in Public Space, Edmonton

Five topo­graphic models of moun­tain-land­scapes in the scale of ca. 1:1.000 - 1:3.000 depict geographic areas in different parts of the world, which are on the same lati­tude as the city of Edmonton in Canada. The corre­sponding longi­tu­dinal coor­di­nates are written on the sides of the lanterns. Stain­less-steel, each 7 x 7 m, Kath­leen-Andrews-Transit-Garage in Edmonton, Alberta. Comple­tion 2020.

53°30’N

24 kt

24kt, Art in Public Space, Berlin

a bird’s nest, cast of solid fine-gold twigs and a contrac­tual agree­ment that allows the school to destroy the nest after a minimum of 14 years serves as a concep­tual foun­da­tion for the new Fuchs­berg primary school in the district of Berlin Marzahn-Hellers­dorf and due to its economic value also as an invest­ment for future needs of the school. Completed October 2018.

24 kt

The opera ain‘t over till the fat lady sings

Art in Public Space, Oronsko

A large tambourine, 5 m diam­eter x 1,2 m, red-white coated aluminum construc­tion with seven bronze pigeons atop standing upright at the entrance to the sculp­ture park of the Center for Polish Sculp­ture, Oronsko/PL. Completed summer 2017.

The opera ain‘t over till the fat lady sings

transparency is a trap

Objects | Installations | Drawings, Oronsko

Ultra­vi­olet paint is trans­parent and invis­ible for us, but visible for birds. It prevents them from colliding with the glass and dying.

transparency is a trap

20.000 Morgen

Art in Public Space, Neuhausen

32 silver-plated terrain-models at a scale of 1:50.000 in each room of the guest house of the THW (Federal Agency for Tech­nical Relief) federal school in Neuhausen / Fildern. Completed in fall 2016.

20.000 Morgen

Reflected Ministry

Art in Public Space, Bonn, Lightworks

Inter­ac­tive Videoin­stal­la­tion projected onto the glass-facade of the building A3, Cross­build­ings (Kreuzbauten) in Bonn. Completed 2015.

Reflected Ministry

Pink Occur­rence

Art in Public Space, Cumulus, Gdansk

Inter­ak­tive fog-sculp­ture on the bank of the Nowa Motlawa, Stare Dolni in Gdansk/PL. Designed 2012 for the Outdoor Gallery of the City of Gdańsk compe­ti­tion for the Laznia Centre of Contem­po­rary Art. Comple­tion planned, pending.

Pink Occur­rence

Radom Cumulus

Art in Public Space, Cumulus, Lightworks, Radom

Designed 2010, real­ized in 2014 for the Mazovian Centre of Contem­po­rary Art - Elek­trownia in Radom, Poland. A three-dimen­sional light object made of 19 layers of curved neon contours, stacked hori­zon­tally on top of each other. The contours form a styl­ized cumulus cloud that rests on the very edge of the roof above the entrance of the new built museum.

Radom Cumulus

And honey upon hawthorn grows

Art in Public Space, Gdansk, Lightworks, Milk + Honey

Real­ized in 2013 in the park Nadmorski in Gdansk/PL within the South Baltic Program, Wind Energy in the Baltic Sea Region 2 coor­di­nated by the Elec­trotech­nical Insti­tute Gdansk Branch.

And honey upon hawthorn grows

Hemisphere

Milk + Honey, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Stereo­scopic photo on lentic­ular foil, three panels, 360 x 180 cm, 2012.

Hemisphere

Cloud in my hand

Cumulus, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Group of draw­ings, ball­point on paper, 27 x 35 cm, produced between 2010 and 2012.

Cloud in my hand

Promises

Milk + Honey, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Group of draw­ings, ball­point on paper, 27 x 35 cm, produced between 2005 and 2011.

Promises

Blau Weiß (Blue white)

Berlin, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Blau Weiß (Blue white)—Group of draw­ings, ball­point on paper, 50 xi 50 cm, produced between 2005 and 2008.

Blau Weiß (Blue white)

And honey upon hawthorn grows (Multiple)

Editions, Milk + Honey, Multiple

Sawn out of a wooden panel made of rough box wood, measuring, 70,0 x 157 cm, 3 cm thick, (Edition of 10), 2013

And honey upon hawthorn grows (Multiple)

No one buys or sells anything there (Multiple)

Editions, Milk + Honey, Multiple

Sawn out of a wooden panel made of rough box wood, measuring, 64,0 x 61,5 cm, 3 cm thick, (Edition of 10), 2013

No one buys or sells anything there (Multiple)

Cumulus Berlin (1:10)

Berlin, Cumulus, Editions, Multiple

1:10 porce­lain model of the work Cumulus Berlin in an acrylic show­case measuring 31 x 21.5 x 16 cm as a limited edition object (edition of 5 copies), 2011.

Cumulus Berlin (1:10)

60°N 05°E (encased waterside) 1:100

60°N, Bergen, Editions, Multiple

Silver-leaf 1:100 plastic model of the work 60°N 05°E (encased water­side) measuring 25.3 x 16 x 10 cm as a limited edition object (edition of 5 copies), 2012.

60°N 05°E (encased waterside) 1:100

54° street light

54°N, Lightworks, Objects | Installations | Drawings

A recre­ated street light from the small town of Port Saint Mary on the Isle of Man, United Kingdom, 54°04’20.77“N 4°44’18.07W. Aluminium, wood, plastic, fog gener­ator, 2012, height: 3 m.

54° street light

Rivers of wine & beer (compressed)

Lightworks, Milk + Honey, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Light-Object, a wooden box with mirror wall paneling inside, trans­formers, neon-letters, 100 x 95 x 70 cm, 150 kg, 2012

Rivers of wine & beer (compressed)

Neon Cumulus

Cumulus, Lightworks, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Light object made from neon outlines suspended on thin steel ropes, lumi­nous blue, ca. 300 x 210 x 160 cm, chrome-plated steel sheets, 2011.

Neon Cumulus

Blackbird & Bluebird

Objects | Installations | Drawings, Video, Wiesbaden

Two channel video projec­tion on opposing panels, DV PAL, 8:30 hrs and 6:15 hrs. Produced during a 3-month stay in Wies­baden, Germany, in 1998. Instal­la­tion shown in the Kunsthalle Münster 2002. 

Blackbird & Bluebird

Things are generally different behind closed doors

Barcelona, Objects | Installations | Drawings, Video

4 channel video instal­la­tion. Exhib­ited 2005 at the Fundació Joan Miro, Espai 13, in the series Obses­sions, (zero % stan­dard), Barcelona/Spain.

Things are generally different behind closed doors

Accurata Utopia Tabula

Milk + Honey, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Histor­ical Chart of the Accu­rata Utopia Tabula (J. B. Homann around 1700) with complete index as a backlit slide in a light box, stain­less steel frame 195 x 145 x 3 cm, 2004.

Accurata Utopia Tabula

Fräulein Eislingen

Eislingen, Objects | Installations | Drawings

Thirty flower vases, donated by friends of the Kunstverein, for thirty days of the exhi­bi­tion. Kunstverein Eislingen 1995.

Fräulein Eislingen

Selected exhibitions

Exhibition views

Views 1992 - 2014

Selected exhibitions

Cumulus 11.08

Art in Public Space, Cumulus, Neumünster

Real­ized in 2012 as a perma­nent instal­la­tion in the sculp­ture park of the Herbert Gerisch Foun­da­tion in Neumün­ster, Germany. A stylised cloud made from shiny white plastic measuring 300 x 200 x 200 cm is swivel­mounted at a height of 580 cm at the tip of a 450 cm-long hori­zontal cross­beam which swings above the house.

Cumulus 11.08

60°N 05°E (encased waterside)

60°N, Art in Public Space, Bergen

A rectan­gular, polished stain­less steel panel measuring 416 m² covers the stony shore of an inner city fjord with a small island. The panel is exactly aligned according to the earth’s coor­di­nate system and relates to the area between 60°22’52.55“N / 60°22’51.8“N and 05°20’01.24“E / 05°20’02.32“E. 2010 designed for the Norwe­gian city of Bergen, installed 2012 as part of the Bybanen Art Program.

60°N 05°E (encased waterside)

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Art in Public Space, Berlin, Lightworks

Random­ized neon­signs marking the former fron­tier crossing point Ober­baum­bridge Berlin. Realised in 1997. Commis­sioned by the Berlin Senate Depart­ment for Urban Devel­op­ment and the Envi­ron­ment as a perma­nent marker on the Ober­baum­brücke, the former border crossing between East and West Berlin.

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Milk & Honey in Ratingen

Art in Public Space, Lightworks, Milk + Honey, Ratingen

Mirrored LED text presented as part of the exhi­bi­tion project “Blick­wechsel” in North Rhine Westphalia—42 art projects in public space, 2011.

Milk & Honey in Ratingen

Cumulus Berlin

Art in Public Space, Berlin, Cumulus

Realised in 2010 in the garden court­yard of the Federal Ministry of Food, Agri­cul­ture and Consumer Protec­tion in Berlin.

Cumulus Berlin

Standby Potsdam

Art in Public Space, Lightworks, Potsdam

A vertical gasflame, realised as part of the exhi­bi­tion project “Auf zu den Sternen” (To the Stars) orga­nized by the Bran­den­bur­gis­cher Kunstverein from September 2000 to March 2001 on the Schiff bauer­gasse indus­trial site in Potsdam.

Standby Potsdam

Cumulus 08.07

Art in Public Space, Cumulus, Lightworks, Lippstadt

Designed in 2008 for the sculp­ture path “Licht­prom­e­nade” (Prom­e­nade of Light), realised in 2009 in Lipp­stadt, Germany.

Cumulus 08.07

Die Potsdamer

Art in Public Space, Berlin, Intervention, Unrealized

Film produc­tion for Pots­damer Straße in Berlin. Not realised. Winner of the 2005 compe­ti­tion “Pots­damer Straße—Künstlerische Installation(en) zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte” (Potsdam Street—Artistic Installation(s) relating to the history of art and culture).

Die Potsdamer

Milk & Honey

Art in Public Space, Berlin, Lightworks, Milk + Honey

A large scale slide in a light box, 230 x 180 x 12 cm, at the Berlin S-Bahn station Unter den Linden, as part of the “trans­portale”, April – May 2003. 

Milk & Honey

Wismar depot

Art in Public Space, Lightworks, Milk + Honey, Wismar

Lumi­nous red neon text spelling “Milch & Honig” in back-to-front letters in the old city harbour of Wismar. Installed in 2005 during “Zum Wasser—ins Licht”, Kunst im Stad­traum Wismar. (To the Sea—into the Light, Art in Urban Space in Wismar). 

Wismar depot

Rivers of wine & beer

Art in Public Space, Lightworks, Milk + Honey, Wiesbaden

A steel profile frame with white and blue neon letters running around it and a round hole in the ground, realised as part of the Wies­badener Kunst­sommer “Wo bitte geht’s zum Öffentlichen?” (2006 Summer of Art, Wies­baden, Germany “Show me the Way to the Public Sphere!”).

Rivers of wine & beer

Hunger and Thirst, Coke and Sausages

Art in Public Space, Intervention, Wiesbaden

Inter­ven­tion with three men on a balcony covered in flowers on the Wies­badener Rathaus­markt, 24th of August 2000 – 16th of September 2000.

Hunger and Thirst, Coke and Sausages

Curtain.mov

Art in Public Space, Eberswalde, Hospital

Realised in 2002 in the Martin Gropius hospital in Eber­swalde, Germany. Commis­sioned by the Bernau State Plan­ning Office and the Bran­den­burg Ministry of Finance.

Curtain.mov

Fingerwalks

Art in Public Space, Eberswalde, Hospital

Five large flatscreens inserted between the pillars of the atrium of the Eber­swalde regional hospital show hands walking on their finger­tips. Realised in 2002 in the Martin Gropius hospital in Eber­swalde, Germany. Commis­sioned by the Bernau State Plan­ning Off ice and the Bran­den­burg Ministry of Finance.

Fingerwalks

Screen

Art in Public Space, Münster

Glazed section, measuring 250 x 140 cm, of the brick back wall of the exhi­bi­tion hall of the Kunsthalle Münster, 2002, a visi­tors’ bench, construc­tion spot­lights mounted on the inside and outside.

Screen

International Sculpture

Art in Public Space, Kiel

A protec­tive wall of approx­i­mately 1,500 sand­bags in front of the Kunsthalle, realised in 1993 on the occa­sion of the exhi­bi­tion “Kunst im Welt­maßstab” (Art on a World Scale) at Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany, as a Thomas Bauer project (Thorsten Gold­berg and Wieland Bauder). 

International Sculpture
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