Martin Reichmann. Hyper!ons Epiphysis

Massive sculptures, rubble-like remains — the works of Martin Reichmann have a brutish character. His favorite material is concrete, a substance that he transforms into coarse sculptures—among them casts of loudspeakers and heads of horses—which not infrequently become a central part of spatial stagings or performances. Trash and Antiquity, pop culture and the cultivation of remembrance: a wide range of approaches encounter each other and become interconnected here with playful vehemence.

For his first solo exhibition at a major institution, Martin Reichmann is bringing together new works: unpolished sculptures of concrete that make reference to cultural goods from different times and eras; broken columns that no longer support anything. In addition, there are molded objects oscillating between everyday found items, Antiken-Kitsch: kitschy evocations of Antiquity and self-confident artistic design. Or to speak with the words of Reichmann himself: “ruined remains, enameled stories, calcified brains.”

Reichman does not consider decay and destruction as decline, but instead as a dynamic process that allows both pre- and review in equal measure. Seen from this perspective, his sculptures are harbingers of a transformational process still awaiting configuration. Because amid the “wreckage of today” is the insistent question: Quo vadis? Where is this society headed?

The exhibition is complemented by video works. Moreover, an artist’s newspaper is appearing as a complimentary edition to be taken home.

Martin Reichmann (*1989) lives and works in Bremen. He studied at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel and at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, where in 2022 he  received his degree as a master student of Ingo Vetter. In 2022, Martin Reichmann received the Karin Hollweg Prize, one of the most generously endowed awards of all the art academies in Germany.

Opening: June 20, 2024, 7 pm

Admission free

Exhibition in the project space

Curated by Ingo Clauß