2014—ongoing

Installation Ankommen und ablegen

Boats often travel through my paintings. I am fascinated by them, because they create a space; a me-space. A boat on the sea. A person on a boat. Maybe alone. Water all around. The boat is a mean of transportation, a shelter, maybe a home. One can steer a boat, set the sails. Nonetheless the boat is exposed to the sea and the wind. One can also make paper boats. To play with. To dream of vastness. However, in 2014 the boat has gained for all us another – non playful – reality. People have boarded boats to flee from their reality to another, to a supposedly better world.

The paper-like boats in my installation “Ankommen und ablegen” were built in collaboration with Cucula by men, who have travelled with similar simply built boats across the Mediterranean Sea to Lampedusa and finally arriving in Berlin.
Since 2014 and until now, they have been shown many places, e.g. in Valparíso (Chile), Erfurt, Rostock, Berlin and at the Sculpture Triennial in Bingen.

Read more about “Ankommen und ablegen” here (in German) and here (in English).