Julia Werhahn

Interaction in the outdoor space
Residential buildings towering into the sky, blue, green, tile look with motif, an empty can of coffee cream jammed into the side exit of Netto.
On our exploratory tours through Lichtenberg, we collected photographic samples and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle (like a Rubik's cube of narrative scraps). The samples in the form of narrow vertical and horizontal strips show sections of Lichtenberg's architecture and commercial (areas) and focus on details found along the way: a painted house wall, colorful articles of daily use, sheep in the pasture. It is the gaze of a visitor, a passer-by, who tries to capture something striking: Vans, shimmering car paint, places of assembly. Stories emerge from the concentration of image details. The different places interact with each other. Impressions and memories become a conglomerate of random samples, a city model (or collage) of layers of urban space and different lifestyles.

Julia Werhahn and Luisa Puschendorf have been working together as an artist duo since 2012. In installative spatial concepts and sculptural interventions, they reflect the relationship between the individual and society in private and public spaces.
Longing, fragility and threat - these are the basic themes of their artistic work. Their art reflects the strategies of how people arrange themselves in and with their lives, how they settle into them. Werhahn & Puschendorf shed light on existential states, moments of being and search for answers.

Werhahn & Puschendorf have developed two serial works for the Unconscious Love Affairs exhibition at the Artists Unlimited Gallery. Everyday objects such as furniture, materials and pictures are found in unusual new contexts and modifications, creating whimsical, humorous and self-explanatory images of life

Bastian Hoffmann
Julia Werhahn
Laura Dechenaud
Lukas Marxt

NOW YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE
Raum4
Michael Horbach Stiftung
Wormser Str.23
50677 Köln
02.12.18-05.01.19
FINISSAGE: 05.01.19 at 18:30

Öffnungszeiten:
Mi: 15:30-18:30
Fr: 15:30-18:30
So: 11-14

Bauvorhaben unterliegen während der Umsetzung Änderungen, es kommt zu Abweichungen und Variationen auf dem Weg von Idee zum Ist- und Sollzustand. Notwendige Handlungsimpulse und Lösung-versprechende Aktionsbereiche entstehen, Material und Werkzeug werden zu Mitteln der Kommunikation. Die Sehnsucht nach Verwirklichung, der Anreiz durch die Suche nach Perfektion und die provisorischen Lösungsversuche, die von diesem Streben übrig bleiben... In diesem Spannungsfeld entsteht spielerisch ein Regelwerk. Werhahn & Puschendorf nähern sich dem vermeintlichen Ist-Zustand und stellen sich den kollektiv konstruierten Sehnsüchten, die die Welt am laufen halten; eine Befragung des andauernden Prozesses der Konstruktion.

Julia Werhahn und Luisa Puschendorf entwickeln Skulpturen und raumspezifische Installationen. Mit unterschiedlichen Medien suchen sie Formen, die Zustände zwischen Konzentration und Ablenkung beschreiben: Aufenthaltsraumähnliche Szenarien, Videos von abstrakten Stadtfahrten, verformte Objekte und Bilder aus dem Alltag.

Julia Werhahn und Luisa Puschendorf develop a new installation that deals with the ambivalence of public and private spaces. Both artists have been concerned with this topic a for an extended period, and create sensitively, fully composed scenarios, which show different ways in which people arrange their lives, and how they attempt to adapt within it. In their installation Room No. 3, the visitor encounters a sort of futuristic lobby: flooded with light, the sculptures are presented behind glass, and seem to enclose the conserved past and at the same time also a promising future. The room is an exhibition space and a waiting room at once. Whether the art or the viewer is at the center of attention is a question left unanswered.

as part of the exhibition series 3 ½OPENING 02/07/2015 19H