Alicja Kwade
dal 19/6/2008 al 23/8/2008
Segnalato da
19/6/2008
Alicja Kwade
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Piepenbrock Price for Sculpture
The artist Alicja Kwade, this year’s winner of the Piepenbrock Price for Sculpture, works in a multi-faceted and original way, employing a number of different media (installation, sculpture, photography, video) and materials. Her art work makes use of classic sculpture materials as well as of objects of everyday usage, distorted to rip them out of their usual context and meaning. Coal briquets are turned into gold barrels, pebbles into precious stones, pavement stones into diamonds. In doing so, Alicja Kwade poses questions of auhtenticity and value, perception and classification. Over and again, she engages with matters of physics, such as the representation of the visible and the invisible. At the same time, her art combines science with poetry and playfulness.
Made possible by the Piepenbrock Unternehmensgruppe and Museum & Location
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstrasse 50-51 - Berlin