Philip Topolovac at Invaliden1

Generations of archaeologists and monument conservators have thought about the ideal way to preserve artefacts and buildings. In the last century, it was fashionable to reconstruct what seemed to be missing. Nowadays, it is all about doing as little as possible to the remains from the past and keeping them as found. In his current exhibition »Diverse Zimmer« at Invaliden1, Philip Topolovac does both. For his work he collected war-torn artefacts that he discovered on construction sites in the city centre of Berlin, a link to layers of the past that would have been lost otherwise. By placing them on a hybrid of a piece of furniture and a spacecraft, he embeds these untouched story tellers in a new context that builds a bridge between the past and the future. We think it is a really nice comment on all the ongoing discourses about reconstruction here in Berlin. Philip Topolovac shows that there is no necessity to reconstruct the original settings to give the things he has found a meaning. To check this out, join the artist at the closing of his show on January 7th.

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