Christiane Löhr
In a large-scale survey exhibition, internationally renowned artist Christiane Löhr (*1965) creates a unique sculptural and installation cosmos with materials from nature. She uses airborn seeds, plant stalks, burrs, tree blossoms and animal hair to construct her organic-abstract works, which are reminiscent of architectures, landscapes or vessels. In a surprising way, she transforms the ephemeral materials into precisely constructed, delicate as well as expansive sculptures.
The exhibition brings together nearly 80 works from the last four decades. In addition to sculptures and drawings, three large-scale installations created especially for the show as well as a series of earlier, rarely shown works by the artist are on display. Christiane Löhr's vegetative-architectural spatial sculptures in Richard Meier's light-flooded museum building open up current perspectives on the fragile image of being and invoke organic principles of growth and construction.
Christiane Löhr, who works in Cologne and Tuscany, is one of the most important voices in the current discourse on new, contemporary approaches to sculpture. The work exhibition takes up groundbreaking themes in the context of modernism around the artist couple Arp for the 21st century.