Lebensguss – Groupshow
Theo Balden, Fritz Cremer, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sonja Eschefeld, Wieland Förster, Katharina Gerold, Clemens Gröszer, Sabina Grzimek, Michael Jastram, Siegfried Krepp, Tamara Kvesitadze, Will Lammert, Johannes Lauter, Jeanne Mammen, Margret Middell, Emerita Pansowová, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Rast, Susanne Roewer, Father Raphael Statt, Rolf Szymanski, Evelyn Weinzierl, Trak Wendisch, Berndt Wilde, Dirk Wunderlich
The objects of the exhibition Lebensguss ("Life Casting") | Marc Krepp were created without exception in the studio of Marc Krepp. The studio was founded by Krepp in the early 1980s in Berlin-Weissensee, and he continues to lead it to this day, exemplifying ceaseless creativity. Following a family tradition which emanates from his father Siegfried Krepp, a Berlin based sculptor, and which is also currently being furthered by his daughter Michéle.
Galerie Kornfeld, in cooperation with 68projects, is pleased to present an exhibition across both gallery spaces featuring rarely seen works by well-known, predominantly German sculptors of the 20th and 21st centuries. This exhibition celebrates the Berlin-based bronze caster Marc Krepp and his life’s work with these artists.
The objects of the exhibition Lebensguss (“Life Casting”) | Marc Krepp were created without exception in the studio of Marc Krepp. The studio was founded by Krepp in the early 1980s in Berlin-Weißensee, and he continues to lead it to this day, exemplifying ceaseless creativity. He thus follows a family tradition that originates with his father, Berlin sculptor Siegfried Krepp, and is currently being carried forward by his daughter Michéle.
Artists including Wieland Förster, Will Lammert, Theodor Balden, Trak Wendisch, and Rolf Szymanski, as well as younger and more recent positions such as Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, and Tamara Kvesitadze—who represented Georgia at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2011—have created masterpieces of contemporary sculpture in close and fruitful collaboration with Marc Krepp. The works are predominantly figurative and range from minuscule objects to monumental sculptures that fill entire rooms or even occupy public squares in urban space.
More than forty works cast by Marc Krepp for the following artists are on view in the exhibition:
Theo Balden, Fritz Cremer, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sonja Eschefeld, Wieland Förster, Katharina Gerold, Clemens Gröszer, Sabina Grzimek, Michael Jastram, Siegfried Krepp, Tamara Kvesitadze, Will Lammert, Johannes Lauter, Jeanne Mammen, Margret Middell, Emerita Pansowová, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Rast, Susanne Roewer, Father Raphael Statt, Rolf Szymanski, Evelyn Weinzierl, Trak Wendisch, Berndt Wilde, Dirk Wunderlich, and others.
Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue containing texts by Christoph Breitwieser, Ingeborg Ruthe, Wieland Förster, and Johannes Lauter, as well as numerous illustrations. Addressing the importance of the bronze caster and the close interdependence between artist and foundry, cultural journalist Ingeborg Ruthe writes:
“Working in harmonious collaboration with the artists, the caster decides on essential aspects such as material, viewpoint, contour, focus, and whether a work will stand on a pedestal or a plinth. The results of these partnerships and decision-making processes are now the subject of this exhibition and catalogue. The works in three dimensions do not confront us in a linear, chronological order; rather, they form a network—a mesh with a complex structure of references that allows each individual object to be approached from different perspectives: stance, posture, gesture, attitude.”
