Walk & Talk 

We invite you to join us for a tour of the exhibitions Diego Bianchi Errores Irreales and Celina Eceiza Ofrenda. In a relaxed and informal atmosphere, you will have the opportunity to engage in dialogue with the team, ask questions, and discuss approaches and artistic positions.

Diego Bianchi and Celina Eceiza are two Argentine artists with backgrounds in arts and crafts, who started out working on a small scale before moving on to creating large-scale installations. While Diego Bianchi’s expansive intervention architecturally transforms the upper floor of the HALLE FÜR KUNST, and his humorous, but sometimes dystopian-looking sculptures scattered throughout the space suggest a theatrical stage landscape, Celina Eceiza creates an immersive walk-in installation constructed from fabric paintings, batiks, and textile collages – a ​“soft museum” that is intended to appeal to the senses in a variety of ways.

With Errores Irreales, Diego Bianchi offers a profound interpretation of conventional and dominant notions of the body and materiality fundamentally reinterprets conventional and dominant notions of the body and plastic. By integrating everyday objects and consumer goods into his sculptures, he draws attention to chains of consumption, excess, and waste, while also exploring the vulnerability of the body as fragile, socially pressured, and malleable through references to biological, technological, and malleable through references to biological, technological, and social conditions. The result is an apocalyptic yet captivating scene in which Bianchi challenges the relationship between subject and object, while simultaneously reimagining and reassembling the museum and urban space.

Celina Eceiza’s Ofrenda, which can also be translated as ​‘gift’, invites visitors to linger, contemplate, and encounter one another. Conceived as ​“soft museum,” her installation is composed of hundreds of meters of textiles that Eceiza dyed and bleached by hand, and is also dedicated to Argentine art history: the names of Argentine modernists are sewn into the fabric architecture among collages that resemble canvases. Eceiza’s practice draws inspiration from New Age spiriruality and cosmological thinking, and the giant figures inhabiting her installation evoke a physical presence, that, in a sense, engages the visitors in a dance.

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