Artist statement

Installations

The aesthetic of mixed media installations has turned out as being a basic characteristic of my body of work since its early beginning. Essentially sculptural in their approach, these installations mostly consist of found objects that already went through the process of production as well as their actual application. This involves alienated material derived from the hardware industry, bulky trash found in the streets of certain neighbourhoods, and whole accessible locations, in- and outdoor environments, opposed to the white cube gallery spaces. By the artistic intervention, I try to induce a loss and change of function and reading, being playful, naive, charming as raising a smile. However, the ironic and absurd moments provide a subtle but distinct stitch: something must be wrong. I consider my works as nomads who settle in a niche. They will stay only for a defined period of time before they disappear.
Considering most of my installations as three-dimensional collage sculptures that can be walked through, I contemplate my work in relation to DADA as well as to post-minimal art of the 1970s and to contemporary strategies of deconstructing architecture into sculptures linked to a fictional narrative. Doing so, I extend them by various different media, such as video, photography, or performances. They become lenticular flip images that can be turned to get a second perspective. By adding this alienated view, they put the spectator on the backside of the mirror and comment on social, political or artistic situations in coherence to the environment they have been settled in.
I intend to deal with current issues by insisting on the human element and the trace of manual process as a contrast to clean surfaces of technologically designed objects.