In her book ‘Atlas of AI’, researcher and artist Kate Crawford tells of a journey to the Nevada desert. She is standing in the scorching heat in the ruins of an old stone house that was part of the once flourishing gold mining village of Blair. Crawford looks out through a gap in the ruin onto an emaciated wasteland and reflects on the violent marks we humans leave on landscapes due to our insatiable greed for raw materials. In 1906 it was gold, in the 21st century it is lithium, which is mined on a large scale in Silver Peak, three miles from Crawford's location. But as soon as the raw materials are exhausted, humans move on in search of the next reservoir. What remains are landscapes that are exhausted and littered with debris.
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In a poetic and idiosyncratic way, the artist Natalia Stachon traces the atmospheres of such places in her new drawings and installations.
The entire arrangement corresponds with the special architecture of the Reinbeckhallen, on whose walls countless silent witnesses of a bygone but momentous industrial era have survived.
Stachon's works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including:
4th Industrial Art Biennal, Labin, Croatia (2023), Kunstverein Springhornhof (2020/21), ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2019); Academy of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin (2016/17); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl (2016); CSW Center of Contemporary Art, Torun/PL (2016); BWA, Contemporary Art Museum, Katowice/PL (2015); n.b.k Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2015); Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt (20 14); Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2020/2013/2010); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2013); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2012); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2011/2010); Tate Modern, London (2010).
Since September 2021, Stachon has been professor of sculpture and drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design.
- Through the space where a window used to be is a collaboration between the Stiftung Reinbeckhallen and LOOCK Galerie.
Opening | 19 January | 12 noon – 5 pm
19 January – 22 February, 2025 | Fri 4 – 8 pm | Sat & Sun 12 noon – 6 pm
