Veronika kellndorfer: Group exhibition at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel in Berlin

September 17, 2021

Christopher Grimes Projects is pleased to share images of Veronika Kellndorfer’s work Stilted House, 2017, part of the group exhibition Fugen at the project space Die Möglichkeit einer Insel in Berlin currently on view. Kellndorfer’s photograph, Stilted House, 2017, was taken in São Paulo at Casa de Vidro, the residential house built by Bo Bardi in the 1950s. There is a unique fragility and vulnerability to the house, with its thin, stilted columns supporting the building as it protrudes from the jungle-like garden. In this work, Kellndorfer’s photographic view of the modernist glass house is reproduced as a silk-screened image on glass. Like a virtual screen, the glass facade reflects the uncanny way in which the vegetation slides into the image.  

Kellndorfer’s work reflects the open structures of Lina Bo Bardi’s architecture and transfers them into an arrangement of transparent and opaque elements. This occupation with the architecture of Lina Bo Bardi is a continuation of Kellndorfer’s research into architecture as a myth, from Mendelsohn to Mies van der Rohe, to Schindler, Wright and Taut, and as far as Villa Katsura in Japan. In her practice, she examines the graphic quality of architecture and its intersection with the landscape, as well as the transformation of light and the movement between inside and outside. Kellndorfer focuses on the intimate details of windows and reflections and how they reveal the ephemeral nature of seeing, as well as the subjectivity of space.

The fugue, as a musical compositional principle, is based on polyphonic polyphony. From an architectural point of view, it stands for tolerance: the joint holds things together in and on the building and gives them play. For Hamlet, the order of time was out of joint. 

But did the future ever keep what it once promised? And isn’t the present always confusing? Is the world out of joint? Is the cohesion dwindling again? Has the modern age had its day?

The works shown in the exhibition span reminiscences and isms from art, architecture, photography, and design. And they are reflected in the place in a very concrete form: classic, modern, postmodern have inscribed themselves in the city in a tense way in overlays and layers, structures and transfers, quotations and reconstructions in front of the large window wall in the concrete housing. 

-Stephanie Kloss, curator

The show will run until November 7, 2021

Opening times: Wednesday - Saturday: 3 pm - 6 pm
By appointment only
info@moeglichkeit-einer-insel.de

Inselstrasse 7, 10117 Berlin
U-Bahn Märkisches Museum
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