Rebekka Benzenberg

Tension - the allure of contraries, whether visible or invisible as well as the "inside", the "outside" and especially the "in between" is the focus of Rebekka Benzenberg.
What we consider humane is a normative regulation of social behavior, which isn't constant. The restrictions and ostracisms that these regulations cause are as variable as the basic idea they rely on.
Conventions, their symbols and codes are dynamic. Rebekka Benzenberg works with materials that stand and can be read as encodings for social and societal phenomena.
She mainly builds installation-like, amorphous or art-historically shape-adapted foreign bodies into the space, with everyday materials. These materials offer an association spectrum, which, despite the new classification, creates access by recognition.
Furthermore, her works are bound to the specifications of the room. They are literally planted into the space; on site, for the space, into the space - firmly interwoven – making architecture part of the work and at the same time an adversary.

Submitted by Galerie Anton Janizewski