Daniel Schreiber

Harriet Zilch

Andreas Schulze

Alex Petalas

ON STAGE is the title of Andreas Schulze's exhibition, with which he turns Kunsthalle Nü rnberg into a stage for his surreal visual worlds. Time and again, the great dazzling world of entertainment coincides with trivial everyday aesthetics, art-historical references collide with banal ornaments and knickknack. Large-format images of neat-looking car bodies jostle bumper to bumper for a photograph for a folding panel of a room-filling traffic jam. But Andreas Schulze is taking us for a ride; his images of mobility, progress, dynamism, and status look almost childlike. The artist has always had an eye for the absurdities of our everyday lives. In 1989, he still said that the avant-garde moved between two extremes: intellectuality and crude banality. He, on the other hand, has always sought a bourgeois mediocrity. He has since been quoting it with an amused shrug: amorphous tubes, bulging objects, stylized waves, points of light, misty areas, and little clouds of exhaust gas arrange themselves in peculiar landscapes. Brick walls, velour carpets, floor lamps, rubber trees, and all manner of everyday objects are the stage for the familiar, which suddenly appears strange and combines with humor and inscrutability. After all, much that at first seems carefree does actually not represent a visual feel-good place. Andreas Schulze's pictorial concept is banal and enigmatic, peculiar, yet despite all its familiarity it does evoke a subliminal sense of unease.

Kat. Kunsthalle Nürnberg, The Perimeter London

Andreas Schulze: On Stage

Ellen Seifermann

Mathilde ter Heijne

Mathilde ter Heijne is a Dutch contemporary visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. She works in a variety of different mediums, including installation, sculpture, photography, and video. Her work often incorporates elements such as literature, film, theater, and performance, sometimes using life-size dummies resembling the artist herself. Thematically, ter Heijne explores issues of political violence and power-relationships within society, frequently questioning her role as an artist within these frameworks. The exhibit preserved in this catalog provided a comprehensive survey of her work for the previous decade, allowing them to be seen as part of her overall project.

Harriet Zilch

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