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<p>For her
exhibition <i>room in room in room</i> at Kunsthaus Langenthal, Valentina
Stieger (born in 1980) has invited three colleagues who have already
collaborated in various constellations: Jessica Pooch (born in 1982),
Lena Reiser (born in 1980), and Nora Rekade (born in 1977). These
four artists interrelate their works and explore what they have in
common, taking as their point of departure their interest in the
design of the everyday, the artificiality of pop, prefabricated
material, and temporary architecture.
</p>
<p>Together,
they developed an intervention in the historic spaces of the
Kunsthaus. Built from 1790 to 1809 as a department store, it served
from the end of the 19th
century as the town hall, until it became the Kunsthaus in 1992. The
frequently panelled walls of the building, which is listed as a
historic monument, where partially covered with simple installations
to make them more suitable for their new function of exhibiting art.
The result were spaces within spaces, or indeed rooms within rooms.
Stieger, Pooch, Reiser, and Rekade take this one step further by
creating spaces within the spaces within the spaces, which play with
the floor plan, and in so doing rupture and transcend it. At issue
here are not just physical spaces, but also social spaces that were
tied to the various functions of the building – trade, politics and
civic administration, art – and, finally, the space which
emerged through the temporary collaboration of these four artists: a
space created for and through their art. </p>
Valentina Stieger
room in room in room mit Jessica Pooch, Nora Rekade und Lena Reiser
Kunsthaus Langenthal
2013
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Photo Credit: Valentina Stieger