Encoded Commodities – Matthias Stuchtey

Abb.: Matthias Stuchtey, Kolonie 1, 2024, Spanplatte, Eisenvierkantrohr

Volumes, housings and architectural structures form the core themes of the sculptural work of Matthias Stuchtey (* 1961), alongside biological reference fields.

The artist examines these elements, deconstructs them and creates new spaces in the room. He uses seemingly everyday materials such as chipboard or other semi-finished products from the building trade and places them in new contexts to create formations that sometimes appear constructivist. He also uses used objects such as furniture or fixtures from past exhibitions, sometimes even clothing, whose history is thus inscribed in the sculptures and ciphered into "encoded commodities".

Stuchtey first develops a (spatial) element from these "encoded commodities", from which he then allows his modular systems to grow and condense in a processual manner. The resulting sculptural works are associated with growing urban landscapes or nest colonies and reveal themselves as sensitive systems of order between seemingly precisely separated and interlocking interior spaces, exterior spaces and surrounding spaces - in short: they open up spaces for reflection.

Space and urbanity become an artistic image in order to rethink changes, boundaries and views of (experiential) space in contemporary human coexistence.

Runtime: Sat, 15/06/2024 to Sun, 15/09/2024

Takes place here:

• Gotisches Haus