Period (opening hours):Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
Venue:Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin
Auguststraße 26
10117 Berlin
In her artistic practice, which moves between painting, installation and object and textile art, Maja Behrmann develops schemes and structures of form into expansive ensembles. Colour-intensive wooden sculptures, fluid knitwear and collaged tableaux come together in a triangle of movement consisting of object, space and viewer. Her repertoire of fragments of form and elaborate characters is rooted in a bureaucratic procedure of collecting and organising drawn outlines of exhibits from a wide range of disciplines - including crafts, geology, architecture, design and everyday utensils - and is constantly growing. References to each other, intermediate forms and overlaps as well as the conditional nature of the materials constantly generate new arrangements and inventions. Every angle of view opens up further releases and superimpositions, sets things in relation to one another and forges connections.
Sharpening tools, grinding. Changing the blade. Change position. Changing my position. Threading, stringing together. Not new; transformed. Swing out, regroup. (Against) wanting to categorise. Rotate to orientate in the explanatory gap. A set piece is mobile and can be transferred, i.e. integrated from an existing context into a new one. Flexibility, reuse, correction. Filling cavities with other material to create a stable base.
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- Maja Behrmann -
