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1st Prize Art in Architecture Competition, Staatliches Bauamt München

Realization of glass mosaic 1,6 x 20 m for the facade of the Spezialmagazin, Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchiv in 2025, Leonrodstraße 57, Munich

Finds from the excavation pit of the new building were secured and cataloged in an archaeological manner. In keeping with the theme of “archiving”, the local soil was used as an archive in the art concept, as the primeval memory of the world.

Conspicuous stones and roots, civilizational legacies such as building rubble, rusty iron parts and everyday garbage from at least a century ago were pseudo-scientifically ennobled as archival artifact. Even relics of current construction activity were included, such as marking stakes or pebbles sprayed with blue signal paint.

However, a selection of these was not arranged in an archival-logical order, but rather freely and expressively composed on the studio floor, photographed, color-alienated and pixelated as a template for a wall mosaic.

The pixelation of the disorderly motif in a strict grid closes the conceptual circle towards (digital) order. Seen from a distance, the 64.000 mosaic tiles 2 x 2 cm, made from Friulian Piastrina Smalti form a semi-representational work of art, but when viewed up close they dissolve into an abstract composition.

Large-scale projection on 42m high water tower for the

“terre et temps” art festival 2024 in Orion, France

in cooperation with Thomas Huber (GÆG),

Curator: Dr. Serafine Lindemann,

Video mapping 40 min 4K, sound

The illusion of a giant, glass kettle is created as a metaphor for global warming and the waste of resources.

Water is first poured in for a miserably long time. Due to a time delay, the level only rises irritatingly slowly. When the vessel is finally full after 30 minutes, the characteristic start click sounds and the bluish light increases. More and more bubbles rise, as if the water becomes heated. The bubbles condense and dance upwards until the water begins to bubble and boil with a loud hiss. Curiously, a tea bag is hung in the vessel while the water continues to bubble. Reddish vapors form psychedelic choreographies. Then the tea bag bursts and particles now swirl in the bubbling vessel, whose liquid level is already dropping due to evaporation. The glass walls become increasingly muddy and the level continues to sink menacingly. In the showdown, all the liquid has evaporated and a disgusting sludge has formed at the bottom of the vessel.  An apparent short circuit ends the lighting, only lightning flashes from the swampy floor. The glass jar shatters with a loud crash and hundreds of shards clatter downwards.

the painting piroge im stadtbach is exhibited for 2 months in the foyer of Philharmonie München, Gasteig HP8

until december 30th 2024

piroge im stadtbach 2023 acrylic/ canvas, 180 x 260 cm

The trauma of Stuttgart's citizens from the construction of the Stuttgart 21 railroad station is once again given food for thought. However, the architectural drawings with fictitious, insane building projects by GÆG only frighten the citizens at first glance and are then recognizable as satire even for simple minds.