16th RischArt_Projekt

16th RischArt_Projekt

Group show at the former Rischart bakery, Munich, March 20 – April 16, 2025, with Gabi Blum, Veronika Günther, Tina Haase, Claudia Holzinger, Beate Passow, Pegasus Product, and Hans Schabus

After the Bob Dylan song of the same name, this is a Desolation Row to walk in, populated with my own characters. In the song, dark and dystopian scenes have fictional, historic, and biblical characters commit all sorts of absurd, malevolent, or senseless acts. Passports are painted brown, postcards of lynchings are sold, and the Titanic starts its star-crossed voyage, all the while Cinderella is sweeping the floor. “Everybody is making love or else expecting rain.” Despite its bleak setting and desolate characters, the song is also full of humor and inclined to lift a listener’s mood.

(1) Desolation row, 2024, digital print on PVC mesh, 270 x 750 cm

(2)-(8) Desolation row, 2024-2025, installation of 20 drawings (ink on various fabrics), installation dimensions variable

Photos: Jochen Splett (1), Veronika Günther (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)