Artists

Andrea Pichl

Press release

For the exhibition, Andrea Pichl has devised an architectural installation dealing with the economic transfer between West and East Germany and the transformation occurring after 1989. The public plays a role in the staged scenario, which incorporates commonplace, largely standardised and mass-produced building components and objects.

Pichl removes items and spaces from their original context, scrutinising them and inquiring which image of humanity and notion of social coexistence imbue them. How do invisible structures such as state power, flows of capital and historical upheaval manifest themselves? Where does the public sphere end and the private one begin? When does a utopian vision turn into dystopian reality?

Following Naama Tsabar’s solo show, Pichl’s spatial installation is the second exhibition of contemporary art to be shown in parallel with the permanent presentation of Joseph Beuys in Hamburger Bahnhof’s Kleihueshalle that also references his work.

The exhibition is curated by Sven Beckstette, research associate at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.