The exhibition, titled The Storm Is Made of Air, presents a photo series exploring iconographic possibilities ranging from abstraction to strategies for translating the private cosmos of artists. Within the exhibition and the broader discourse of a group show, a part (air) becomes the sum of the whole (storm).
The series of images refers not only to the conceptual content but also to the formal situation of the SCHAU FENSTER exhibition space on Lobeckstraße in Berlin. The room, approximately 25 meters long and 4 meters deep, creates a unique setting. From the outside, it reads as a classic storefront window with a clear beginning and end, encouraging viewers to move back and forth along its length.
The exhibition responds to this spatial condition by avoiding elaborate staging and allowing the works to unfold through their sequence, as described by Gottfried Boehm. The 20 works selected by Thomas Scheibitz form a kind of biographical arc, bringing together influential pieces from the early stages of his career around 1989 to more recent works from his time as a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, alongside art-historical works from his own collection. The result resembles a collage, which Heiner Müller described as the only way to form an image of the image in the 21st century.
The motif meets the grammar.
Theory confronts experience.
The exhibition title is borrowed from a line in the song Halb Voll by the musician and curator Yaneq.
Compiled by Thomas Scheibitz
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