Alicja Kwade / LinienLand
February 8 – May 6, 2018

Alicja Kwade

Museum Haus Konstruktiv shows a comprehensive solo exhibition by Alicja Kwade (b. 1979 in Katowice, Poland, lives in Berlin). This renowned sculptor and conceptual artist is a relativist who skeptically questions what is supposedly our reality. In her multimedia oeuvre, Kwade takes this approach as a basis for addressing a wide range of very different phenomena and conceptual models from physics, philosophy and sociology, translating these into her distinctive art. This results in works with a conceptual background, which are as sensorially poetic as they are formally stringent.

 

Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade

For the exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, which extends over three floors, Alicja Kwade has conceived the new, extensive installation LinienLand (LineLand): a walk-through three-dimensional grid structure, in which differently sized solid spheres of natural stone float in apparent weightlessness. Here, the artist refers to the idea of parallel worlds, which has been the subject of much discussion since antiquity. Against this backdrop, the extensive structure, based on a system of 5 x 5 x 11 squares, is to be read as a multiverse, whereby each individual cubic metal boundary implies a distinct reality. The grid’s steel system correlates with the stones: Kwade adheres to a strict self-imposed principle, according to which, via the shifting within the system, the individual bars form the spheres’ supports. The resulting gateways invite the visitors to enter a multiverse and to experience the gravity of the large stone spheres, which bring to mind a gravitational field.

 

Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade

The natural stones come from the various continents of our Earth and also symbolize them. The stone material itself, with its various layers that have formed over several million years and make it possible to determine its age, acts as a kind of timescale. In LinienLand, Alicja Kwade has managed to implement her thoughts on space, gravity and time in a fascinating way.

 

Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade

Alicja Kwade’s works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 57th Venice Biennale and Frieze London.

 

Alicja Kwade / LinienLand
February 8 – May 6, 2018 / Museum Haus Konstruktiv
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