| BLACK OUT Karin Hueber / Stefan Roigk
Kuttner Siebert presents the work of Karin Hueber (*1977) and Stefan Roigk (*1974) in the exhibition BLACK OUT. The interplay of the two artistic positions attests to the current understanding of formal language in sculpture and installation, making clear references to Minimal Art of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet both artists prefer simple, usually untreated materials in their work, which in their use and treatment suggest a lightness and instability. Karin Hueber's expansive installations are usually site specific, as was her recent exhibition Poor Thing at Kunsthalle Basel, where, referring to the floor plan, she created a work of steel and wood that was transformed in terms of its proportions. In her first Berlin exhibition, the Swiss artist paraphrases the gallery's entrance area, transferring this structure to the paneling of a wall placed across the room. Despite its size, the statics of this structure seem highly fragile. Along with this site-specific work, Karin Hueber also shows a sculpture of mutually supporting carbon rods reaching ceiling height. In their elegant simplicity, the individual rods seem to be lines become object crossing the space. Berlin artist Stefan Roigk's sculpture often refers to a deconstructionist formal language. All the same, it is not his primarily intention to create spatial solutions that disturb the context of the site. Instead, Stefan Roigk's installations attest to a visual quality enriched with acoustic sounds. The sounds that underlie his sculpture are usually hardly perceptible and difficult to categorize. In the work Black Murmur, black synthetic leather mats are distributed across the floor overlapping against one another. In the midst of this landscape is a wooden object from which several of these mats loom to form a mountain. In the work of Stefan Roigk, sounds take on a spatial volume and the materials used underscore the acoustic characteristics. upcoming fairs:
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