Sturm und Bedrängnis

For the Berlin Gallery Weekend, Galerie Gilla Lörcher presents an installation by the artists, Caro Suerkemper and Matthäus Thoma, both resident in Berlin. The sculptural, collaborative project by Suerkemper/Thoma has the title, ‘Sturm und Bedrängnis’.
For the exhibition, Mattäus Thoma will build a large, multi-pieced wooden sculpture that penetrates from the interior of the gallery through the front window into the public street space and abolishes the boundary between private and public space. Caro Suerkemper inserts numerous fired clay figurative sculptures and objects into Thoma’s piece made from beams and slats.
The installation gives rise to thoughts about a wave of washed-up wood frozen in its movement. In the complex, dynamic wooden construction, Caro Suerkempers figures and fragments absolutely assert lives of their own - not only because of their different materiality but also because of their quirky, acerbic powers of expression. Suerkemper’s figures also seem to be into distress. This does not result in integration, however, but far more a kind of inclusion: captivity and revolt are hinted at.

Text: Gilla Lörcher Translated by H. Allen

The catalogue, ‘Sturm und Bedrängnis’ (Edition Galerie Gilla Loercher) accompanies the exhibition. With a text by art historian Dr. Peter Funken.