Kasseler KunstVereinsHeim - Program August - Stefan Wischnewski
Friday, August 10, 2007, 8 p.m.
Stefan Wischnewski (D)
"center court"
Performative Installation
With the help of minor interventions Stefan Wischnewski turns familiar objects, situations, or rooms into works of art that oscillate between irony and longing. He pays particular attention to leisure culture: “Paradise Lost” (2005) is, for example, a mobile greenhouse. The work called “Segler” (2006) is composed of screens on which the light of a slide projector simulates the sunset, or a luggage trolley that is transformed and fanned out to resemble a living being exhibited in a museum of natural history. Wischnewski translated “Green Thumb” (2005) as a portable object made of a gardening glove with a bandage around the wrist, alternatively for left- or right-handed people; he used diverse gloves to sew different “Architekturmodelle” (2006) inspired by the buildings planned by the architect Frei Otto.
For the temporary exhibition at the Kunstvereinsheim the artist has staged a work inspired by the “Tableaux vivant” of the 19 th century. He transforms his temporary installation with mobile sculpture and cheerleaders into a living picture and defines this as “concrete object art with event character”. The Kunstvereinsheim serves as a forum for exhibition that, through fleeting interventions in the boundaries between work of art and observer, becomes the scene of the work itself.
Stefan Wischnewski, born in Neumünster in 1974, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Valand School of Fine Art in Göteborf. Stefan Wischnewski lives and works in Munich.
Curator: Werner Demme
