In between the two rooms, there was a courtyard. Beyond on the yard, there was a thck pile of earth and sand, and a grass carpet was artificially lying down as if it was drawing a picture. These two were works of Anke Goehring. The interior of this side, on the opposite side of a courtyard, there were some photographs by Christian Mayrock lined up, and each of them looked like connected each other like a story.

As soon as going up to the second floor, there was a big box with a monitor in it by Dirk Holzberg. The box had two halls, and the monitor was set up on the inner side of the halls. On the four walls surrounding the monitor, there were tiled mirrors. The monitor projected a short looped movie, which a bear walking back and forth between a shed and the camera, on the screen. The mirrors were facing each other on the walls, so the movie on the monitor was reflected on the mirrors and there was a visual effect that was totally different from the original picture, which was beyond the imagination.

Inside of the room on the left side, there was a work by Rebecca Michaels constructed with a long lacquer material and naked constructing materials. What attracted me more was a sound heard from place where we can look over the stairwelled room.

“This is a mechanism that a snail shell turns irregularity. Especially, it changes the speed depends on the amount of light. There are no regulations, though.”Ralf Schreiber at the exhibition place explained.

There were not many exhibits there, but each of works had good tensions and looked like it was an ambitious exhibition.

Nach der Natur
Date: July 30th – August 21st, 2005
Place: Haus A3XX
Address: 1 Pappelweg, 15366 Muenchehofe, Germany
https://www.oase.udk-berlin.de