Museum Haus Konstruktiv opens the exhibition year with a solo show by Bettina Pousttchi. On show will be a selection of sculptural and photographic works as well as ceramics. The artist transforms the industrially produced source materials of many of her sculptures with targeted interventions. Conceptually linked to minimal art and the readymade, the works in both large and small formats enter into an exciting relationship with the museum architecture.
In the exhibition at Haus Konstruktiv, Pousttchi is showing newly produced sculptures from the Vertical Highways series; upright crash barriers in an unusual color scheme that have been bent, compressed and wedged into one another in such a way that the abstract forms appear like oversized dancing figures in space. These so-called Progressions, which also give the show its name, extend the sculpture series in such a way that the crash barriers are lined up as if they were gradually growing upwards.
A new presentation of the well-known sculpture group Double Monuments for Flavin and Tatlin can also be experienced. These are curved, white-painted barriers with fluorescent tubes, stacked to form meter-high towers, which refer to the utopian architectural model of the Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin from the 1920s on the one hand and Dan Flavin's famous light works from the 1960s on the other. The exhibition is complemented by a number of new works, including a series of ceramics covered with a strong glaze, which create a contrasting relationship to the industrial museum building.
February 8 to May 5, 2024
