Marc Dittrich „Houses“

The question “Where is my mind?” perfectly hits the bull’s eye, which is the main subject of Marc Dittrich’s (1976) series of installations. With the help of hundreds of pasted window and balcony elements he transforms everyday objects like junction boxes, stairs or in this case also toilet walls into futuristic skyscrapers or depressing blocks of flats. Thanks to a careful choice of perspectives and lights the temporary modifications gain an artistic touch and change with the viewer’s perception blurring boundaries between reality and manipulation. www.marcdittrich.de

(5) Café Bauturm - toilet

Maximilian Erbacher "All by myself"

As former suspect in a taxicab murder the Cologne artist and taxicab owner Maximilian Erbacher (1970) puts himself in the position of the culprit: “Down lies the mirror ball, pearled and black painted. The light reflections are fixed with mirror foil and the pointer is switched off…” Later on the murder cab will be found on the lawn in front of St. Gereon church. The beams of the mirror ball hit the arch of the basilica on reflections from Holy Ghost. www.maxerbacher.de

(9) St. Gereon

Gudrun Geyssel "detention"

Gudrun Geyssel’s (1976) work “detention” combines in her sculptures the paradoxes of the fleetingness of the moment when temporarly sitting down on a bench and the immortality of concrete. The viewer makes out a series of benches with buttocks prints located on, which can be considered as invitation for sitting down and to consume a presentation. However, “detention” brings the viewer back to himself. As soon as the viewer approaches the benches and makes out the prints he will have in mind that nothing else will happen any more. www.meins-taschen.de

(13) Spichern Höfe - historische Halle

Patricia Lincke “germanified” & “Sleepers”

Patricia Lincke’s (1963) installation concentrates on the provincial German bourgeoisie. In her video series “Germanised” she reveals through a peephole for a brief moment the world of neighbourhoods that – because of the curtain and without eye-contact – remains anonymous. The same-called pictures condense the subject by a well-aimed composition of associative domestic treasures on the window seat. With the net curtain sculptures called “Sleepers” she pushes the viewer to take a better look behind the curtain of neighbourhood. www.patricia-lincke.de

 (29) studio holterhoff

Pim Palsgraaf "Multiscape"

The studio of Pim Palsgraaf (1979) is located in the industrial section of Rotterdam. His love-hate relationship to this environment is fundamental for his art work. In “Multiscape” he shows the outgrowths of urban architecture. Comparable to tumours of urban growing he drapes found objects on stuffed animals to symbolize the contrary of culture and nature. The city seems to overcome the animal and to bring it to its knees. His painting reveals us the clandestine interior of cities. Deserted rooms, damp corridors and ceilings in danger to collapse at any time show his weakness for urban decline, for the natural environment of men slowly sinking into oblivion. www.pimpalsgraaf.nl

(39) E-Raum

Jojo Tillmann „BreakUp“

“Break Up” is the title of the new works of stage and light designer JoJo Tillmann (1966), which give you the opportunity to indulge yourself into everydays life forgotten context of light, space and perception. Architectural, mathematical linearity and emotionalizing light impulses create his “lightings”. Light in its specific aesthetics appears. Variable cells create a changing colour-light-ambient and demand from the conscious of the interactive medium, the beholder, to orientate himself in the altering sense layers of the light, of which he himself remains part.
http://homepage.mac.com/lichtbau/JoJo%20Tillmann/index.html

(47) Ecoist

Sarah Winter: "Please fasten your seatbelt"

Sarah Winters (1979) series “Please fasten your seatbelt” deals with air safety. The ritual presentation of security measures is not only replicated on five light boxes but ironically put on stage. Referring to traditional church mosaics she created a window series suggesting at first glance a site of pilgrimage for security but at second view it reveals a psychological manipulation by celebrating and exaggerating the control of every nut, bolt and screw. www.sarahwinter.de

(51) #Tausend

Montanaberlin (Christian Heilig, Esther Horn, Nadine Rennert, Gab Heller, Matthias Röhrborn, Richard Schütz) „mindscape“

“mindscape” is an installation coming from the artists group montanaberlin. With sculptural elements (Christian Heilig and Nadine Rennert), paintings (Matthias Röhrborn), room illustrations (Esther Horn), animations (Gab Heller) and clips (Richard Schütz) they mix up interior and exterior space, shadows and lights, motion and stillness. The model became real, reality is provisional and identify can be explored.

www.montanaberlin.de

(36) Rheinlandhalle