Luka Fineisen
09.05. – 13.06.2010

Through her sculptures and spatial interventions, Luka Fineisen allows the viewer an insight into her very own world. Invisible and yet atmospherically dense, she fills a room overflowing with the scent of honey, floods entire rooms with milk, immerses them in a mysterious mist or melts their walls. In Luka Fineisen’s eyes, everything in the world seems to be alive and subject to constant change. Rigid elements melt and run down the wall in drops. The interventions she makes within the architecture of a room can be subtle or obvious, but always testify to a keen eye and great sensitivity to the surroundings. At the same time, the ease with which the artist seemingly conquers and condenses the space for herself is impressive. Her sculptures appear almost weightless.
Through form and material, Luka Fineisen’s works oscillate between artificiality and natural effect. It is often only at second glance that the nature of the works is revealed. Seemingly fragile bubbles turn out to be hemispheres made of plastic, while solid masses turn out to be ephemeral foam. They literally grow out of the tubes and apparatuses that produce them, sprawling into the exhibition space and taking possession of it. The works consist of shiny chrome technology and morphological form. Luka Fineisen thus makes the process of becoming visible, but does not demystify it. On the contrary, the constant cycle of emergence and decay to which many of her works are subjected allows the viewer to linger, lose themselves in the detail and marvel again and again.
Luka Fineisen has dedicated herself to sculpture, a genre that is initially associated with clearly defined, three-dimensional objects made of solid materials. The artist contrasts this with her works with characteristics such as fleetingness, change, growth and process. In various works, Luka Fineisen explores the extent to which a material that has no haptic qualities can nevertheless create volume and fill a space. Fine spray raining down from the roof of a building forms a wall and isolates the viewer from the outside world. Evaporating honey fills the nose with its sweet scent and creates a dense atmosphere. Fog spreads through a room, making parts invisible and highlighting other elements at the same time. All the senses are challenged when it comes to understanding the artist’s works.
Her thoughts go their own way and have long gone beyond the realm of the technically feasible. Just too megalomaniacal, she dreams of melting entire buildings and making them collapse or breaking them apart with swelling yeast dough. For some time now, she has therefore turned to architectural models that set no limits to her imagination.

In the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, the artist is developing her exhibition on the basis of the extraordinary exhibition architecture.

Curated by Julia Schleiss.