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To mark Black History Month Stuttgart, Ebube Sett, OFILI, is adding an artistic installation to the collection of everyday objects from Swabian middle-class households in the WUNDERKAMMER – NATURALIA I ARTIFICIALIA Disclaimer: The grammatical errors in some of the questions are deliberate and part of installation. Feel free to make grammatical errors when responding in… Continue reading IDENTITIES IN FRAMES

The Liliaceae family and its species Tulipa, is closely related to humankind and its cultural evolution. We experience its centre and expansion through human cultivation in a variety of forms and colours. The botanical-aesthetic figure of the tulip finds symbolic shape in its brief blossoming period. „Ephemere“ is an attempt to give form to the transient.… Continue reading Éphémère

In the natural world, sexual deception describes the tactics used by animals and plants to achieve their reproductive goals. Seemingly artificial forms in animals are indeed genetic, embodying a kind of primitive intelligence in animals and plants and an enduring way to preserve their species. In the human world, manmade machines present a similar tendency… Continue reading Deceptive Behavior

On the special occasion of CURRENT – Art and Urban Space Ella den Elzen addeed an artwork to the display of objects found in nature by the artists of the previous exhibitions in WUNDERKAMMER – NATURALIA I ARTIFICIALIA Ventilation, hydration, and humidity systems regulate the false environment of the botanical garden. Within its glass-encased wrought-iron… Continue reading Limbe Botanical Garden, 1:600, 1896

On the occasion of CURRENT – Art and Urban Space, Mélissa Mariller adds works from the series Verkehrsstücke to the collection of utilitarian objects from Swabian middle-class households in the WUNDERKAMMER – NATURALIA I ARTIFICIALIA Mélissa Mariller’s work lies at the intersection of design and contemporary art. The fusion of these two fields creates objects… Continue reading Verkehrsstücke

The trouble with disorderly detail Aluminum lightboxes with laser cut aluminum frames 60 cm x 100 cm x 20 cm The trouble with disorderly detail (sound) Audio Composer / sound designer: Alice Z. Jones Taken from Cameroon, undated Archival photograph printed on backlit transparency film 25 cm x 32 cm Taken from Cameroon, undated Archival… Continue reading The trouble with disorderly detail

In artistic collaboration with: Camilo Bojaca and Nicolas Vicaino – Diorama Painting, Alse Design – Costume Based in a study of a flock of wild Amazon parrots sighting in the Stuttgart metropolitan area since 1984 – in between Bad Cannstatt and the Schloss Rosenstein area – the project Schwäbische Amazonen plans the development and execution… Continue reading A Squawking Showcase And Other Parrot Tales

It is about my vulnerable life in the last 6 months, which have been:

1. placed in the virtual world most of time, working as an artist,
2. switched the psychological servers constantly,
3. having uncanny sex.

With the installation „are you profitable?“ by Florian Model the artist asks major questions regarding human labor and therefore live as individuals in a capitalist society. It feels like an ironic, fatalistic and sad comment on valuation of Human Resources and how individuals evaluate their own resources themselves. He simply uses a device known from advertising, the stock market and road traffic to provide his message.

Björn Braun’s work is based on the process of transformation: In a synthesis of appending and removing the artist generates pictures, collages, objects and installations, which shift between natural formation and artificial shaping. For Braun, paper, wood, fibres and feathers in different manifestations – as industrially produced textiles or as articles found in nature –… Continue reading Untitled (zebra finch nest)

She had a smile made with a marker
my mum cut her out
and her hands did attach
and her belly filled with rugs

I was a bit afraid of her
she had white sheet face because she was Lady Winter
so she was bad
white cold sheet dress

I don‘t remember but
They went by the river
They set her on fire and threw her into the river
Her head roll off the stick

White sheet became brown
Paper hands dissolved in the water
Outspread
Did they scream for help?

Here Morana was
fertility and harvest goddess back in the days
of the cycle of rebirth and death
What did they do to her?

Oh Morana, poor Morana
Oh Morana, poor Morana
we will undrown you
we anoint you

Oh Morana, poor Morana
Oh Morana, poor Morana
we will undrown you
we anoint you

Text by Alicja Wysocka

With the installation Wundertüte, Johannes Hugo Stoll shows the results of his collaboration with his father. The project began when his father asked his son if he would make a death mask of him. He agreed on the condition that both of them would make masks of each other. As a result, two bronze casts were created with the title Bronze Wrapped Bubble. The cooperation led to further works in different media: an audio recording of the two singing in the shower and four video works. The latter use different stylistic means, partly abstract and partly documentary, to tell of the father-son relationship and the process of developing a joint work of art.

Once the skin of the apple has been scratched, oxidation processes are triggered by contact with the oxygen in the air. The smell of fermentation attracts destructors and the apple soon loses its shape. Life always demands interaction, and this presupposes the instability and changeability of bodies. In the same way, one’s self-image is formed through communication with others or it dissolves. The senses, too, need exchange; consequently, convictions falter and evaporate, like matter.