Marcel Hiller
Im Schatten der Nacht sucht
16.03. – 27.04.2014

It is difficult to classify Marcel Hiller’s works because the expansive staging of material conglomerates does not, in a confusing way, seek any specific knowledge. Marcel Hiller first studied at the Kunstakademie Münster under Ulrich Erben and Suchan Kinoshita and then completed a postgraduate program at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His works pointedly disrupt collective mechanisms of verbalizing the visual. Spaces are processed, smoothed, expanded, dismantled, simulated, reduced or closed. What in this first step is reminiscent of conceptual and institutionally critical strategies, of techniques for an exemplary survey of spaces, he softens in the next step through the natural use of the newly given situation. In order to understand Hiller’s interest, it is necessary to understand his understanding of material. He usually assigns clearly separated categories such as space, institution, author, object, concept, reference and sculpture to it, strains them and uses them to compose situational conditions, fictions of places, agreed meeting points for trying out unmediated perception. What exactly does perception mean? Marcel Hiller assumes that we have degenerated into administrators of autonomously existing code systems through an aggressive offer of unambiguous signs down to the last pore, and that there is really nothing we can do about it except to escape now and again into a column in this false economy of attention.

Curated by Klaus Becké.