Exhibition: Retina,
Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin, 2020
List of works in order of appearance:
Den Galle, den haben wir gesichert, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 33 x 50 cm
Dann war hier alles offen, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 15 x 20 cm
Und der ist nicht mehr hier, um ihn zu schützen?, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 50 x 33 cm
Das ganze Gelände ist eine Endmoräne aus Trümmerschutt, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 25 x 35 cm
Der Spritzputz wurde in den dreißiger Jahren gemacht, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 50 x 33 cm
The title ’Whoever can fly, can also swim’ comes from a sign which was attached to a bust of the cosmonaut Waleri Bykowski. As an act of vandalism, the bust was thrown into a pond next to the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin-Treptow after the fall of the Berlin wall. This story was revealed in an interview with the director of the observatory during an excursion through the observatory gardens.
The installation combines interview fragments with photographs to examine the blank spaces — spaces such as empty pedestals, missing busts and exposed layers of plaster surfaces — that were discovered during the excursion.
Exhibition: Retina,
Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin, 2020
List of works in order of appearance:
Den Galle, den haben wir gesichert, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 33 x 50 cm
Dann war hier alles offen, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 15 x 20 cm
Und der ist nicht mehr hier, um ihn zu schützen?, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 50 x 33 cm
Das ganze Gelände ist eine Endmoräne aus Trümmerschutt, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 25 x 35 cm
Der Spritzputz wurde in den dreißiger Jahren gemacht, inkjet print, acrylic glass, 50 x 33 cm
The title ’Whoever can fly, can also swim’ comes from a sign which was attached to a bust of the cosmonaut Waleri Bykowski. As an act of vandalism, the bust was thrown into a pond next to the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin-Treptow after the fall of the Berlin wall. This story was revealed in an interview with the director of the observatory during an excursion through the observatory gardens.
The installation combines interview fragments with photographs to examine the blank spaces — spaces such as empty pedestals, missing busts and exposed layers of plaster surfaces — that were discovered during the excursion.