Installations
After graduating in the directions of painting, drawing and graphic art, I soon felt the need to work outside framed borders by creating (interactive) installations and environments.
This is an introduction on my installation art. You can also just navigate through my website and find out about those in connection with painting, performance, video, digital and photography, for it’s all linked. A good start for that is the portfolio tap.
Interactive
How it started...
I discovered the power of interaction and working in direct relation with public space during a student exchange with the art academy in Berlin, where I stayed on an Erasmus grant. There I exchanged the boring lithography workshop (a reproduction technique I had already mastered and don’t find interesting at all) for a piece of ‘free state’ on the Lohmühler Wagenburg, in the middle of Kreuzberg. At the time, it was a barren strip on the border between east and west where the wall had stood at Görlitzerpark. Today it is the alternative cultural centre. I painted in the open air, my canvases against the caravans and on the ground. From the coloured pebbles splattered with paint, I made floor works that reflected the buildings in the area, reminding of the way I drew 'my' house in the sand with a stick as a child. Passers-by, people who lived there and went for a walk there found that very interesting and I started conversations: I asked about their lives in the GDR period, how it had felt to live on that border and how it felt to just walk there now. I discovered the power of interaction and working in direct relation with public space.
Image: 'Triple Jump', 1996 (click)
First interactive installation: Srebrenica, identity, Europe, nation states, borders, power structures, geopolitics
Experienceable
Total Installations
Connecting
Political
Site or event specific