EVERYBODY WAS HERE

SOLBATEMIM #7

Sticker based on the installation at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2017 together with Sophie Isabel Urban. It was followed by a smaller and permanent engraving in 2018 on the backside of the staircase to the top floor and donated to the institution’s collection.
Published with SOLBATEMIM on the occasion of Between Books at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

emotional Budgets

Ongoing series showing a personal exploration of Linienstraße in Düsseldorf, a place that has been an appartment (until 2024) as well as studio and exhibition space. First images were taken in 2021 in a near-documentary approach to explore the limits between and overlappings of private space, public invitations and their corresponding activities.
Here 4-parts from summer 2025. Solarized b/w Contacs, digitalized, Inkjetprints 35x50cm each

2021, ongoing Series. These four were compiled in 2025, each approx. 10cm in Diameter.
Acrylic tubes, cable ties, heat-shrink tubing, stickers, rubber, corrugated cardboard, cellophane, painted flower by Hanna Kuster, printed materials: Sigma catalog, 2025; Augmented Landscapes - Smout/Rose/Spiller, 2006; Two Decades - W. Guyton, 2020; Paywall No. 2 – Device, 2025; A Man Asleep – G. Perec, 1991; Museum Wax Processing Instructions; Illustrations of Plants, Shrubs and Trees – B. Sherman, 1995; PHILIPS Light Alarm Clock, Operating Instructions, 2022; Early Sculpture & Performance - S. Burton, 2000; CONTROL Magazine No. 17, 2007; The Open Library - Clegg & Guttmann, 1995; PROXXON Heat Gun Manual.

The installation was comprised of Minor Infrastructural (Shoulders) using plinths from the storage and additional panels attached to various sides, 3 works from the Repositories series, arranged throughout the entrance and exhition spaces, and Untitled Constellation (25-II & III), smaller arrangements of objects, images and drawings.
One part of the emotional Budgets series in the background.
Layers in Complexity at Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, 2025. 2nd & 4th Installation View by Simon Vogel, last image was taken in the studio.

SOLBATEMIM #5 ≈ Kunstverein Bielefeld No265|25 is comprised of 14 edited publications, published by Kunstverein Bielefeld between 1990 & 2024. Various inserts (pasted b/w Xerographs on Pergraphica classic rough, 90g/m2), 1 poster (screen print on scrap paper, folded DIN A2, graphic design by Max Schropp), 1 pencil sharpened on both ends, 2 invitation cards & exhibition floorplans for They are putting out apples, it must be fall. 2 photographs (digital print), a plastic sleeve have been added.
Concept and editing by Thomas Neumann, Sophie Isabel Urban, Simon Wienk-Borgert (Linienstraße).
Image credits & copyrights correspond to the underlying publications & Linienstraße, 2025.

Organised as Linienstraße (together with Thomas Neumann and Sophie Isabel Urban)
With works by Nura Afnan-Samandari, Geta Brătescu, Michael Franz, Gabriel Kuri, Paul Niedermayer and Michel Wagenschütz in collaboration with Theodor Dathe.
Kunstverein Bielefeld, 2024-2025, Installation Views by A.R.

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Hansaallee, Düsseldorf, 2024. The installation has no title, but seeks to unfold in a loose constellation of references and overlapping, subjective narratives. The installation remains searching for a plateau while understanding its’ own making as a continuous derive.
It encompasses three or four arrangements of imagery and objects as well as a contribution by SOLBATEMIM (#004).

Contribution for shifting by Johanna Terhechte at oxfordberlin, Berlin, 2024.
Together with Ludwig Kuffer and Johanna Terhechte.

Untitled Figure (tight, white Jacket)

as Siemon Ponnts

2024, Porous Repair, Petershof, Cologne

2022, ongoing series. Here 6 parts, images room by room and loosely corresponding materials.
All solarized b/w contacs, digitalized, Inkjetprints 35x50cm each.

Steel cable suspension for the interior, on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition The Egg and I, Great Expectations at Linienstraße in 2024. With works by Jürgen Drescher, Buket Isgören, Victoria Tarak, Sophie Thun and works by the group caring for the project.

2023, Graduation at Kunstakadmie Düsseldorf.
Installation Views by Kai Werner Schmidt.

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