45cbm: Schirin Kretschmann

Labor

12.05.–10.06.2018
A small room with white walls, dark floor, and illuminated dark ceiling.
A minimalist room with containers placed on a dark floor with white walls.
A room with minimalist white walls contains several metallic tubs on the floor.
=A modern room with a black marble ceiling and white walls.
Minimalist room corner with dark ceilings and textured flooring under subtle lighting.
A modern, dimly lit hallway leading to a bright room filled with colorful shelving.
A dark, textured painting with illuminated horizontal lines and a distant moon.
A shiny, oblique metallic artwork displayed in a modern, white, corner gallery.
A contoured ceiling with dark metallic finish and LED strip lighting.
A close-up of a textured black ceiling with a shiny ledge next to light fixtures.
A dark, reflective and textured ceiling with visible cracks and bubbles.
A close-up view of a room corner with a black, textured ceiling and wall-mounted lighting.
Exposed texture of black material, reflecting light in patches.
A close-up view of a fragmented, cracked, reflective surface showing light reflections.
A glossy black ceiling reflected on wet surface with a white trim on a wall.
Two metal bowls, one containing broken black material.
A broken, melted object in a shiny metallic bowl.
A broken glass shard covered in black liquid is shown.
A melted and charred electronic component inside a device.
A close-up view of melted and frozen wax inside a bowl.
Four glasses containing ice, one with a metal stirrer, on a textured surface.
A dark, textured ceiling with two built-in lights in a white room.
A sleek black ceiling with integrated lighting in a minimalist white room.
An empty room with black ceiling details and several metallic containers on the floor.
Bowl with white powder and small holes, resembling a face.
White hallway with an abstract artwork on the wall and a red window.
A metal strip affixed to a taped, white wall.
A black relief artwork depicting abstract human figures on a plain white wall.
A close-up of a dark, textured and worn surface showing signs of age.

Artist

  • Schirin Kretschmann

Curator

  • Lisa Bensel
The site-specific works of Schirin Kretschmann impress with their presence. In her “installation paintings,” for example, she sifts large areas of luminous pigment over degraded architectural elements or places colored ice cream in the exhibition space, which subtly blends with the surroundings in the process of melting and drying. The processual character of each work develops mostly after the supposed completion. In the Studioraum the artist realizes a work with black dubbin. As a synaesthetic experience, this intervention is constituted by the tension between the material’s properties and the specificity of the exhibition space.