Im Experiment mit isolierten Aspekten, wie Verortung, Maßstab, Funktion, Zirkulation und Schnittstellen werden die Objekte zum assoziativem Rohstoff für das erste Haus. Anders als beim klassischen Werkstück, in dem die Bearbeitungsmethode keine Rolle spielt, werden im Verarbeitungsprozess Fragen und Konflikte erzeugt, die zu Ideen für Architektur, Raum und den in ihm stattfindenden Situationen führen. Über die entzifferbaren Zusammenhänge hinaus, stellt der Arbeitsprozess ein Phänomen dar, das sowohl von unseren alltäglichen Erfahrungen als auch von glücklicher Koinzidenz geprägt ist.
Bettina Kraus and Nandini Oehlmann, Mathias Peppler with
Gerburg Brilling, Rebecca Galley, Vithujan Gengatharan, Branko Gudlin, Rafael Herzberger, Dennis Hildebrandt, Leana Hahn, Izabella Jadwiga Milto, Aleksandra Oracz, Adrianna Rauer, Aaron Schedler, Burhan Sezdi, Maximilian Springer, Hanna Strahl
Fotos: Irina Hoppe
English
The exhibition is taking place in Wechselstuben, a temporary, site specific installation by Michael Beutler at Rosa Luxemburg Platz. On view are the first object and house produced by the architecture students of the Atelier Bettina Kraus at the University of Technology Cottbus.
The process of creating these works began with the choice to work with one material – wood, felt, stone or metal, as well as the parameter of a limited number of work processes. The choice of material, its fabrication and handling has a defining influence on the expression of each object. Through a simple series of dividing and manipulating, different raw materials are transformed into a group of remarkable figures with a sculptural presence that make us aware of the possibilities and limitations of the respective materials. In the process of dividing, re-building and de-forming the different materials, which are largely industrially produced, the connections between form, structure and the material-specific properties are discovered.
Within the experiment of dealing with isolated aspects of situatedness, scale, function, circulation and points of intersection, the objects become associative resources for the house. Different from the traditional Werkstück, for which the treatment of materials is not in itself of interest, the process of working brings forth questions and conflicts that lead to ideas for architecture, space and the situations taking place within. Beyond its classifiable connections this work process also presents itself as a phenomenon in itself, one that is informed by both everyday experience and fortuitous coincidence.