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Spatial installation by Kirstin Arndt: o.T., 2008
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Kirstin Arndt, who lives in Ludwigsburg, has a strong penchant for building supplies and the materials used by workers. She employs everyday materials which she removes from their original context to give them a new artistic purpose. Plastic sheets, wooden pallets or roof battens are incorporated into her installations, where they develop a strange enticement. In the sculptural arrangement she has devised for the exhibition “Guest Show”, these materials have been systematically robbed of their functions so as to create an extraordinary frame in which to present several works from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection.
The museum space is dominated by a large construction made of twelve standard roof battens whose length corresponds to the height of the ceiling. Thrusting its way through this configuration is a barrier made of construction site fencing with neon tubes attached to it at eye level, and lying behind this are four wooden pallets on which Arndt has placed three artworks from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection. Finally, for the rear wall six transport pallets have been put together to form a square tableau, their interstices all lit by means of white neon tubes, while round about the installation three other works from the collection and two older wall pieces by the artist are hanging out of plastic sheets.
The number of roof battens together with their uniform length suggests that the central element of this exhibition must initially have been a cube which, crushed and drawn out lengthways, no longer has any of its tectonic stringency as it lies at a diagonal in space. The edges of the cube have been transformed into dynamic guidelines that playfully break up the stereometry of the space, and in this way actually allow the walls, floor and ceiling, and the art hanging on the walls to become elements of the overall installation, and to be perceivable as such.
This kind of galvanisation of the exhibition space and its inclusion in the work is typical of Kirstin Arndt’s installations, which are more concerned with directing the beholder through a space than confronting them with a material presence.
The construction materials used in this installation continue to fulfill the function for which they were conceived: the work is a building site for a constructive spatial idea.
Excerpt from catalogue texts by Andreas Pinczewski and Gerda Ridler
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Works in the Exhibition:
o.T., 2008
12 roof battens, metal, silver-plated
Courtesy Kirstin Arndt
o.T., 2008
2 barriers, 2 metal clutches, barrier feet, 4 neon tubes, cable ties
Courtesy Kirstin Arndt
o.T., 2008
4 transport pallets, 2 HDF plates
Courtesy Kirstin Arndt
o.T., 2008
6 transport pallets, 7 neon tubes, ironmongery
Courtesy Kirstin Arndt
o.T., 2006
PVC cover (silver / green), elastic band (black)
Courtesy Kirstin Arndt
o.T., 2007
PVC cover (silver /green), metal fitting
Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter
Works of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection:
Kurt Schwitters
Kaiser Friedrich Quelle (Collage) WVZ 1592, 1929
Sol Lewitt
Square, 1980
El Lissitzky
Studie (zu einer Szene der »Geschichte von 2 Quadraten«), ca. 1920
Kasimir Malewitsch
o.T., 1915
Dieter Roth
Am Rhein, 1968
Peter Zimmermann
Malewitsch, 1996
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