SCULPTURE & PUBLIC SPACE
NHT–Neue Heimat Tirol, Blaiken Scheffau residential complex, Tyrol 2021.
As the unanimous winner of the invited competition of the NHT-Neue Heimat Tirol, I was invited to create my sculpture entitled "Growing Together" for the newly built residential complex in Scheffau, Tyrol.
The soul of a residential complex is the people who live here and meet each other - some for the first time: strangers become acquaintances, later friends and confidants or even opponents.
The sculpture addresses this process of first meeting, communication and “growing together” of the people living here:
We see two halves of the head, one half with a square net, the other half with a round net. These halves are set up at a certain angle to each other so that when you walk around them, they come together visually differently depending on your point of view: sometimes they complement each other to form a head, sometimes there is a distance between the two, sometimes they overlap completely - all qualities that also depict interpersonal communication.
This opens up expected and completely unexpected perspectives and perspectives for each individual. A constantly new everyday experiment with point of view and insight.
When people enter into relationships with each other and then maintain the relationships that have arisen, it takes time. That's why I choose Corten steel as the material. Its special ability to develop a patina over time that adapts to the local weather conditions symbolizes this time. The longer this process takes, the more robust and local the patina of the sculpture becomes.
In addition to the relationship between people, the relationship between people and nature is also a central theme. I also take up the idea of "growing together" in this regard and plant alpine clematis (clematis) around the sculpture as a hardy and robust native climbing plant. The clematis stands for the unforeseen and spontaneous. It winds around the two halves of the head according to its own plan, creating connections between the two parts. A symbiosis in which people are the support for nature, which in turn affects them and gradually allows people to grow together into a whole.
But the sculpture goes far beyond this residential area: we are all living through a time of polarization and division. This sculpture expresses this condition, shows the perspectives of this situation and the role that we as humans can take in relationship to each other and to nature in order to use this polarity constructively and to avoid a potentially irreversible division between people and their connection to nature avoid.
Artistic design for the inner courtyard as a prayer room in the Bundeswehr Hospital in Koblenz, 2022
Invited competition to obtain designs for the artistic design of the inner courtyard of the newly built Bubndeswehr Hospital in Koblenz.
INFINITY
Corten steel sculpture
Subject: Möbius loop (infinity sign) consisting of 2 head silhouettes.
The sculpture is located in a garden in the building's inner courtyard, which is geometrically designed thematically as a “paradise garden”.
Following this geometry, I designed a metal sculpture consisting of a single metal band. It forms into an infinity
Loop that creates two head outlines.
With this topic I will particularly focus on the view from the prayer/farewell room:
The infinity loop (Möbius loop) symbolizes the eternal process of transformation, becoming and passing away. The figure also reminds us of a figurative gateway from this world to the afterlife, from one state to the next.
Here I managed to choose a symbolism that goes beyond all denominations and is reminiscent of a natural principle of life.
Corten steel shows the aging and passage of time through its ability to weather and acquires an organic property through rust.
Artistic design for the Office of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, 2021
Hanging Together – The Connected World
Corten steel globe
Material: Corten steel sheet, approx. 1cm thick
Dimensions: Diameter: approx. 480 cm
The globe consists of 4 curved, connected, abstract figures spanning it. They form from a tectonic network only to dissolve into it again.
The globe shape stands here as a self-evident symbol for the world. It is defined and shaped by the human figures (keyword Anthropocene). Man is depicted as a part of the earth, a continental form. It shapes the globe and is at the same time a part of it. These parts must also find a balance in their connection in order to create a balance between the parts.
The Corona crisis has shown us very clearly how globally connected we are as humanity.
Even more than our economy, the ongoing wars and the resulting refugee movements, the crises in the financial system and global warming, Corona has shown us in one fell swoop that a common, fundamental rethinking of how we shape our global relationships with one another and with the planet is necessary to connect with each other and with the earth, which has become fragile, in a new way and to create a balance.
Each figure represents a point of view that is brought into the global discussion. Sketched like this
“The connected world” the discourse of the coming times for our earth.
We humans have it in our hands to destroy the earth or to shape it together into a new, balanced and harmonious world. We have forgotten this power because we have devoted ourselves more to what separates than what connects
Form and statics
The globe sculpture consists of 4 spherical quarters made of Corten steel sheet, each of which is self-supporting and together forms the globe.
The globe with a diameter of approx. 480 cm is mounted on two steel tubes that rest or are anchored on the left and right of the building walls. The globe floats with a side distance of approx. 100 cm from the walls of Kreuzasse, at a clear height of approx. 400 cm in the uncovered area of Kreuzgasse.
Visual axes
The globe is designed so that it can be seen as a sphere from both the street and the building. The shadow play created by sunlight also creates an additional dimension on the side walls and floor.
Material
Globe: Corten steel sheet, approx. 1-1.5cm thick
Supporting structure: steel tubes approx. 8 cm
Dimensions
Diameter: approx. 480 cm
Bodenheim fire station, Germany, 2018
Light Object
The two sides of the flame: homely (above you can see two figures forming from the fire, warming themselves by the light/fire), below the threatening flame in which a figure is drowning. Glued on the front and back.
The Obejt acts like a flame and at the same time like an optical buoy that can be seen from afar and thus gives the building a visual “anchor”.
