Group Show
MATERIAL + MASTERY

26.6. – 23.8.
2025

Karlsruhe

Opening
Thu 26.6., 6–9 pm
Performance Simon Pfeffel 7pm

A central aspect of Nina Laaf’s work is the interplay and role reversal between volume, lightness, stability, and surface.

Her work endless memory is a curtain installation featuring an integrated video loop. The moving image depicts the endlessly swaying tip of a palm tree trunk—a quiet, almost meditative recollection of a fleeting moment.

In False Friends, two seemingly identical droplets meet in different orientations. The title refers both to their formal similarity and to the linguistic concept of “false friends”—words that appear alike in two languages but carry different meanings.

A central aspect of Nina Laaf’s work is the interplay and role reversal between volume, lightness, stability, and surface.

Her work endless memory is a curtain installation featuring an integrated video loop. The moving image depicts the endlessly swaying tip of a palm tree trunk—a quiet, almost meditative recollection of a fleeting moment.

In False Friends, two seemingly identical droplets meet in different orientations. The title refers both to their formal similarity and to the linguistic concept of “false friends”—words that appear alike in two languages but carry different meanings.

LUCK is a video installation by Kilian Kretschmer consisting of fast-paced loops: COIN, DICE, SLOT, and CARD, inviting viewers to engage interactively through photography-based prompts.

Exploring themes of chance, risk, and reward, LUCK reflects on the role of luck in both capitalism and the art world.

The contrast between the loops' speed and the stillness of audience-made images mirrors the tension between market volatility and lasting value.

LUCK is a video installation by Kilian Kretschmer consisting of fast-paced loops: COIN, DICE, SLOT, and CARD, inviting viewers to engage interactively through photography-based prompts.

Exploring themes of chance, risk, and reward, LUCK reflects on the role of luck in both capitalism and the art world.

The contrast between the loops' speed and the stillness of audience-made images mirrors the tension between market volatility and lasting value.

Markus F. Strieder lets the material speak for itself – purely and intensively unfolding its sensual power: a calm and yet dynamic force faces the viewer. His steel objects are fullplastics, mostly forged by hand from individual solid steel blocks.

Strieder's steel objects show an uncompromising and pure aesthetic from their production process, their flowing action.

Markus F. Strieder lets the material speak for itself – purely and intensively unfolding its sensual power: a calm and yet dynamic force faces the viewer. His steel objects are fullplastics, mostly forged by hand from individual solid steel blocks.

Strieder's steel objects show an uncompromising and pure aesthetic from their production process, their flowing action.

Simon Pfeffel is a performance artist whose practice centers on creating sculptural situations
that unfold unpredictably.

The appeal of his work lies in the fact that neither the process nor the outcome is predetermined—decisions are shaped collectively rather than by the artist alone.

For the exhibition, Pfeffel presents a new performance as well as a work involving virtual reality headsets, expanding his exploration of presence, perception, and participation into both physical and digital space.

Simon Pfeffel is a performance artist whose practice centers on creating sculptural situations
that unfold unpredictably.

The appeal of his work lies in the fact that neither the process nor the outcome is predetermined—decisions are shaped collectively rather than by the artist alone.

For the exhibition, Pfeffel presents a new performance as well as a work involving virtual reality headsets, expanding his exploration of presence, perception, and participation into both physical and digital space.