Sculpture Park, Haus am Waldsee - International Contemporary Art in Berlin

Francis Zeischegg - Hunting wood piles for the observation of poachers, 2002

Replica of a GDR forestry protection device, round wood, pine, Duplex boards oiled, stainless steel joints

In a forestry magazine, the artist came across the "Jagdschutzholzstapel" in Potsdam in 2011. This hut, disguised as a wood pile, had been used in GDR times to track down "poachers".

Tony Cragg - Outspan, 2008

Tony Cragg releases "force-forms" in his works, which are inherent in the necessity of movement (Valerio Dehò effect). He lends lightness to solid materials such as bronze and duration to complex sequences of movement in space. The sculptor, who has received numerous international awards, is the rector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Karl Hartung - Winged column, 1960/61

Karl Hartung was already preoccupied with wing shapes in the 1930s. Works between figuration and biomorphic abstraction are created in the sense of Henry Moore since 1935. One year later Hartung moves to Berlin.
After military service and imprisonment - in 1943 he was able to visit Picasso in Paris - he was appointed to the newly reopened Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin in 1950, where he was deputy director from 1959 to 1964. Participates in all major international exhibitions such as documenta, Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo, World's Fair in Brussels, etc. Overcoming gravity, growth forms analogous to nature, transitions between inner and outer forms are keywords for understanding this figure striving for lightness.

Olav Christopher Jenssen - Lingaphone, 2008

From folded and cut out sheets of paper developed disc sculptures that can be understood as frames, projection surfaces and voids in nature. Olav Christopher Jenssen is a painter. He works on the transitions between consciousness and intuition and had a solo exhibition at Haus am Waldsee in 2008.

Daniel Pflumm - Light object o.T., 2006-09

Like a large Esso sign with a blue border, Daniel Pflumm's light object shines at the front edge of the front garden and advertises the exhibition house to passers-by and motorists. Pflumm works with the signs of advertising without using their brand names. The empty sign becomes the sign of advertising par excellence. The viewer can ask himself how naturally and without thinking he adds the corresponding lettering. Pflumm, who has become internationally known through numerous exhibitions, participated in the group show "Anstoss Berlin" 2006 at the Haus am Waldsee.

Thomas Rentmeister - Depot, yesterday, 2009

For several years Thomas Rentmeister has been building sculptures out of stacked refrigerators. He brings together everyday things that serve hygiene and directly or indirectly the well-being of our bodies. Instead of filling the surfaces and interstices with Penaten cream as in earlier works, the artist leaves the refrigerator bodies to decay, analogous to the human aging process, and provokes our aesthetic sensibilities. Rentmeister had a solo exhibition at the Haus am Waldsee in 2007.

Michael Sailstorfer - Housing with transport connections (Großkatzbach), 2001

Sailstorfer is interested in the absurdity of our society tuned to mobility. When five bus shelters in his Lower Bavarian home community were to be replaced, he acquired and worked on them. Equipped as a survival unit with bed, chair, table, stove and privy, the shelter shortens the apparent space between living and being on the move.

Ina Weber - Rubble Railways, 2004

The artist studied in Kassel with Martin Kippenberger, among others. It is part of the Berlin-based artist's subversive artistic strategy to direct her gaze at urban, man-made, mostly profane and banal street furniture that has almost disappeared from our consciousness. From this, she presents a miniature golf course in the Haus am Waldsee, which is equipped with ruins of buildings as playable obstacles. In a cheerfully unmasking manner, Weber presents disconcertingly dimensioned model situations.

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1. Francis Zeischegg - Hunting wood piles for the observation of poachers, 2002
2. Tony Cragg - Outspan, 2008
3. Karl Hartung - Winged column, 1960/61
4. Olav Christopher Jenssen - Lingaphone, 2008
5. Daniel Pflumm - Light object o.T., 2006-09
6. Thomas Rentmeister - Depot, yesterday, 2009
7. Michael Sailstorfer - Housing with transport connections (Großkatzbach), 2001
8. Ina Weber - Rubble Railways, 2004