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Kristoffer Akselbo

après-nous

ATWTP

Kenneth A. Balfelt

Nina Beier

Emilie Bergrem

Kaspar Bonnén

Cirque d`Enba de Lyon

Cocktail Designers

Søren Engsted

Fanfare les Talku` Freaks

Thilo Frank

Max Frey

Jeppe Hein

Institut d`Arts Visuels d`Orléans

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen

Finn Janning

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen

Annette Kelm

John Kørner

Jason Kraus

Claus Larsen

Let me show you the world

Mads Lindberg

Florian Neufeldt

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

Michael Sailstorfer

Tomas Saraceno

Tove Storch

Kristian Sverdrup

Koki Tanaka

Henrik Vibskov

Ulrik Weck

Jordan Wolfson

MICHAEL SAILSTORFER

Untitled (Ragdoll Boss) 2009
Wood, iron, electric motor
210 x 85 x 20 cm
Inspired by the game ‘Ragdoll Blast’, Michael Sailstorfer created a simple marionette of wood, whose head is fastened to the wall while its limbs dangle back and forth. The figure swings, sometimes more intensely, sometimes less, from left to right, and now and again it turns 360° around its own head. The wooden limbs clatter loudly as they whirl about, making the sculpture’s movements seem like an unintentionally clumsy and wooden but nonetheless daring acrobatic interlude.

1:43-47, Berlin 2009
Concrete mixer, gas flame, popcorn
218 x 123 x 72 cm
Continuing to explore sculpture‘s self-producing process, Untitled (1:43-47) is an endlessly flowing popcorn machine that addresses both the surface expansion of a kernel (43 to 47 times bigger once popped), and the expansion of the boundaries of sculpture itself.

Biography

* 1979 in Velden
1999–2005 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
2003–2004 MA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London
Lives and works in Berlin


Selected solo exhibitions

2009
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris

2008
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

2007
Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim Galleria Zero, Milan

2006
Johann König, Berlin

2005
MARTa Herford, Herford Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles

2004
Attitudes - espace d‘art contemporain, Geneva

2003
Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin

2002
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich


Selected group exhibitions

2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2008
Merkwürdige Maschinen, Phaenomenale 2008, Kunstverein Wolfsburg

2007
Made in Germany, Kunstverein, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Ironie der Objekte, Museion, Bozen
Förderpreis Schering Stiftung 2007, Berlinsche Galerie, Berlin
Moscow Biennale, Moscow

2006
Transatlantique Impulse, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

2005
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Rückkehr ins All, Kunsthalle Hamburg
Bewegliche Teile, Formen des Kinetischen, Museum Tinguely, Basel

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Untitled (Ragdoll Boss)

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1:43-47, Berlin

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1:43-47, Berlin