ENCODED COMMODITIES - Matthias Stuchtey

Exhibition until 15. September

Volumes, housings and architectural structures form the core themes of the sculptural work of
Matthias Stuchtey (* 1961). The artist examines these elements, deconstructs them and creates
new spaces in the room.

In doing so, he makes use of seemingly everyday materials such as chipboard or other semi-finished
products from the building trade and and places them in new contexts to create impressiv constructive
formations. He also uses second-hand objects such as furniture or build-ins from past exhibitions,
sometimes even clothing, whose history inscribes itself into the sculptures and ciphered them into
“Encoded commodities”.

From these “encoded commodities”, Stuchtey first develops a (spatial) element from which he 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 the human coexistence of our present.

Kategorien: Kunst, Kultur, Ausstellungen

Bezirk: Spandau