Kai Schiemenz
18 Mar - 10 Dec 2016
Kai Schiemenz "Große und Kleine - Pistazie / Malve / Koralle" Ausstellungsansicht Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
© Kai Schiemenz, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
Fotos: Uwe Walter, Berlin
© Kai Schiemenz, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin
Fotos: Uwe Walter, Berlin
KAI SCHIEMENZ
Große und Kleine - Pistazie/Malve/Koralle
18 March – 10 December 2016
“Archisculpture” is the term that perhaps best describes what the artist Kai Schiemenz, who was born in Erfurt in 1966 in Erfurt and lives in Berlin, is presenting at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg. The master student of Lothar Baumgarten works with the mediums of drawing, computer graphics, model building, architecture, and installation. For Wolfsburg, he created extensive installations, wanting to break open how the rooms of the Städtische Galerie are perceived, to subvert customary ways of seeing and experiencing. What interests him is posing social questions regarding city, space, and architecture. What do they do with us, and what relationship do we have to them? He is making use of three spaces in Schloss Wolfsburg: large Styroskulpturen fill the first space, the second serves as a platform for his colourful, crystalline glass sculptures and ceramics, and in the third space is positioned a six-meter-long table that serves as the base for his small Styroskulpturen. Through blurring the boundaries between high and low culture, he develops complex as well as easily accessible installations that involve viewers as an essential component and make it possible for them to experience the questions posed on their own bodies. One can sense his delight in staging and experimenting. Like a stage set, Kai Schiemenz designs on the model of his exhibitions, forms constructivist sculptures that blur the boundaries between nature and industry, reality and utopia.
Große und Kleine - Pistazie/Malve/Koralle
18 March – 10 December 2016
“Archisculpture” is the term that perhaps best describes what the artist Kai Schiemenz, who was born in Erfurt in 1966 in Erfurt and lives in Berlin, is presenting at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg. The master student of Lothar Baumgarten works with the mediums of drawing, computer graphics, model building, architecture, and installation. For Wolfsburg, he created extensive installations, wanting to break open how the rooms of the Städtische Galerie are perceived, to subvert customary ways of seeing and experiencing. What interests him is posing social questions regarding city, space, and architecture. What do they do with us, and what relationship do we have to them? He is making use of three spaces in Schloss Wolfsburg: large Styroskulpturen fill the first space, the second serves as a platform for his colourful, crystalline glass sculptures and ceramics, and in the third space is positioned a six-meter-long table that serves as the base for his small Styroskulpturen. Through blurring the boundaries between high and low culture, he develops complex as well as easily accessible installations that involve viewers as an essential component and make it possible for them to experience the questions posed on their own bodies. One can sense his delight in staging and experimenting. Like a stage set, Kai Schiemenz designs on the model of his exhibitions, forms constructivist sculptures that blur the boundaries between nature and industry, reality and utopia.