EVA GRUBINGER. SPARTACUS
29. November - 17. February 2008

The often expansive installations of Eva Grubinger, born in Salzburg in 1970 and a resident of Berlin since 1989, treat power and impotence and the role of the observer. Her most recent installations are formal abstractions of complex forms of social communication. One example of this is Dark Matter: an enormous headset lying on the floor, out of whose earpieces a diffuse electronic sound forces its way; next to it, shrunk to human scale, are a nuclear reactor, a cooling tower, a office high-rise, and a control tower. The black, opaque surface of these objects gives them an uncanny quality; they are at once attractive and repulsive. In its totality, the work reads like a manifestation of political and economic power whose mechanisms become almost tangible by means of allegorical compression. Eva Grubinger will create a new installation for the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

Curator: Matthias Ulrich (Schirn)