“Das Numen“‘s Transformation
Whenever there’s a sign at the entrance of an art show, warning you to “enter at your own risk,” you can be quite positive that it’s gonna be a hell of a lot of fun.
“Das Numen”’s installation Transformation at Haus am Lützowplatz is indeed fun to experience – but also very smart. Andreas Greiner, Julian Charrière, Felix Kiessling and Markus Hoffmann are the four founding artists of this collective.
For this show, they filled the art space with hundreds of euro-pallets with which they formed a fictive landscape. To climb around in the balancing pallets demanded a little bit of aptitude and definitely heel-less shoes. Euro-pallets are strange things, Hoffmann said at the opening. They are shipped around, constantly on the move, never really belonging anywhere. Thus, they formed a perfect background for an installation about metamorphosis and cycles. In the backyard, the artists dug a hole six meters deep, pumped out ground water, filtered it (Kiessling said that a lot of small-scale enterprises are said to have dumped their waste water in the ground in this area), and let it run through a system of tubes attached to the ceiling of the gallery space. With the water dripping out in designated areas like mounds and little water pools, the artists want to grow mushrooms. Theoretically, after their consumption, the water cycle could be closed…
With this kind of experimental volition, it is not surprising that “Das Numen” are all members of Olafur Eliasson’s Institut für Raumexperimente.
The show will be on until February 2012, Lützowplatz 9, Berlin.
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