Honourable mentions: Elke Wessel, ‘Hamaca’
A huge black hammock crocheted from video tapes and magnetic tapes from a NATO project. In the hammock are balls of various sizes, also crocheted.
‘In a medium used in many cultures – a hammock – multi-layered interpretations can be read. Elke Wessel brings strictly confidential matters to light and exposes them to the fresh air. By bringing them out into the open, something eerie becomes mysterious, which, placed on a hammock, can be interpreted in many ways.’
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2nd Prize (2.000 €): Marie-Andrée Pellerin, ‘Blowrders’ (Video)
The video shows a fictional weather report on weather developments in the Moroccan desert. The meteorologist intervenes and uses controls to change the wind strength, wind howling and dust content.
‘In an enormously condensed form, it visualises the changes the climate is currently undergoing and how humans are attempting to intervene, yet are actually the cause. Climate change as a control element that is slipping out of human hands.’
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3rd Prize (1.000 €): Philipp Appel, ‘House of Wind’
An archway holds a long white piece of fabric and is exposed to the wind. You can walk through the ‘House of Wind’ when the wind is blowing. Without wind, it is closed.
‘Movement and stillness in the visible action of the real wind, as well as in the thoughts of an observer. When the wind changes direction, when new perspectives arise, thoughts open up and the house opens up in a new direction. Whenever thoughts and wind are present, there is an exchange. When there is no wind, we pause.’
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Special Prize: (1.000 €): kisa. Kirsten Sauer, ‘Aurora’
Three fifty-metre-long, shiny white fabric panels are stretched across the landscape in triangles and exposed to the wind and light.
‘In the form of a monumental wind sculpture, the work impressively conveys the theme of the exhibition through the constant changes in light, colour and wind.’
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Honourable mentions: Regina Carmona, „Small Fresh Bed“
A large floral ornament can be seen in the grass. At the tips of each flower are four hay beds filled with fragrant herbs.
‘The idea of “fresh” is made culturally smellable and tangible in a natural space: a place of relaxation/an oasis of thought that directly reaches the senses without being held back by intellectualism.’
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Honourable mentions: Paul Pape, ‘Dust Pictures’
Paul Pape captures ambient dust using a fleece stretched across a device. The finished dust pictures show the dust of other landscapes.
'The exhibition environment “creates” an individual image of the natural landscape. Pape offers the ambient air a landing surface. He enables the creation of an individual, formally abstract “image” of the respective natural landscape.'
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1st Prize (3.000 €): Matthias Block, ‘Reforestation’
A field with 99 triangular brown cardboard columns looks like a reforestation area. On closer inspection, it becomes apparent that the artist has used election posters for the plant protection columns.
"We were particularly impressed by the complexity of his work. From a distance, only the idea of reforestation is visible at first. The sculptural arrangement/structure is convincing. Some of the steles appear to have a coloured finish at the top. The viewer is enticed to come closer, curious to explore the work. Only then does it become clear that these are just shells. First, the colourfulness of the interior becomes apparent, and only when you look inside does the diversity actually become visible: election posters show social and political issues, the preservation of democracy – protecting a delicate little plant. Movement that is not visible, but which is implemented in people's minds."
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