#springhornhof

[rebeccachesney]

Distance

Springhornhof, Germany

22 September - 16 December 2018

I currently have a solo exhibition at Springhornhof in Germany. The images here show new work commissioned for the show Landscape #1, Landscape #2 and Landscape #3. Each is a painted wooden panel. 

Springhornhof website

[rebeccachesney]

I spent a week in Neuenkirchen in Germany researching the area ready to make new work for a solo show at Springhornhof in September this year. I was looking at the history of the land in the area - there are small pockets of heathland within a very ordered, managed agricultural landscape. It was interesting to read about the history of the area, how it used to be commons but divided up over time and became private land.

Springhornof 

[hyperallergic]

Unless you notice the little plaque marking it as art, you might easily miss Aram Bartholl‘s newest work, which debuts on Sunday and blends seamlessly into its surroundings in the wilderness of Germany. “Keepalive” (2015) takes the form of a modified 1.5-ton boulder that lies in a forest clearing next to a small creek, on the grounds of the Springhornhof, a museum of site-specific outdoor sculpture. Unlike an actual rock, however, “Keepalive” houses a fire-powered wifi router that, once activated, connects users through their phones to a list of downloadable survival guides — transforming the boulder into a hard drive of stone. Permanently installed, the piece has a sturdy structure meant to stand the test of time. It contemplates the amount of value we place on data and the types of survival tools we may require in a tech-driven world.

Fire Up a Wifi Router Hidden Inside a Rock