January, 19 – February 22, 2025
FRI 4 – 8 PM | SAT & SUN 12 – 6 PM
Opening: Sunday, January 19, 2025 | 12 – 5 PM
Reinbeckhallen, Reinbeckstr. 11, 12459 Berlin
In her book “Atlas of AI”, the researcher and artist Kate Crawford recounts a journey to the Nevada desert. Standing in the scorching heat amidst the ruins of an old stone house, which was once part of the flourishing gold rush town of Blair, Crawford peers through a crack in the ruin at an emaciated wasteland and reflects on the violent traces we humans leave behind in landscapes due to our insatiable greed for resources. In 1906, it was gold; in the 21st century, it is lithium, which is being extracted on a large scale in Silver Peak, three miles from Crawford's location. At the same time, intensive industrial agriculture is plowing the earth across the globe on gigantic plantations. Yet as soon as the resources or water supplies are depleted, humans move on in search of the next reservoir. What remains are exhausted landscapes littered with debris.
In a poetic and idiosyncratic way, the artist Natalia Stachon explores the atmospheres of such places in her exhibition. The entire installation corresponds with the unique architecture of the Reinbeckhallen, whose walls have silently borne witness to a bygone yet consequential industrial era.
Stachon’s works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2019); Konrad Adenauer Foundation Academy, Berlin (2016/17); Glaskasten Sculpture Museum, Marl (2016); CSW Center of Contemporary Art, Torun/PL (2016); BWA Contemporary Art Museum, Katowice/PL (2015); n.b.k Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2015); Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt (2014); Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2020/2013/2010); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2013); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2012); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2011/2010); Tate Modern, London (2010). Since September 2021, Stachon has been a Professor of Sculpture and Drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Design.