Raum ohne Wände
Gabi Blum, BELIEVE ME! (Lass mich in Ruhe, ich bin grad in Brasilien), 2012, video still. Copyright: the artist
Programme & Events
Gabi Blum's site-specific works are understood as process-based, experimental arrangements. She combines walk-in installations with performance, painting and video. Seemingly familiar contexts are shifted and varied until new constellations emerge from the chaos or repetition. Making of, construction and deconstruction take place in public or are incorporated into the work as documentation - and it is not uncommon for visitors to become Potaginists themselves.
In the hall of the Kunsthaus, an expansive installation is created, sometimes live in front of an audience, which seems to be in a constant state of flux. At the center is a kitchen-like space that symbolizes the central place of every dwelling for communal eating, talking and exchange. The installation is equipped with various functions and at the same time appears dysfunctional and fragmented. Walls are not firmly anchored and seemingly solid elements are light and movable. Following on from the idea of the Heimatstube, a surrealistic setting between diorama, playing field and film set is presented. A backdrop that invites you to linger, a place of refuge, a protected space. But who is protecting themselves from what or from whom?
Once you are inside, you are welcome to stay longer, sometimes there is cake, soup or conversation partners, sometimes there is nothing. The setting seems deserted and at the same time in anticipation of the next change.
On three dates, Gabi Blum invites artistic guests and the public to sit in on her installation with performances, video screenings and discussions. The installation will change each time, it will be rebuilt and extended.
Supported by Sparkasse Allgäu.
About Gabi Blum ↓
Gabi Blum (*1979 Michelstadt) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich after training as a fashion and communication graphic designer. She works as an artist, curator and initiator of temporary spaces, interim uses (e.g. Kunsthaus Raab, 2018) and in public spaces, specifically incorporating the respective contexts. She has received numerous awards and grants, including the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize and the Kunstfonds Foundation's working grant. Gabi Blum is a co- founder and organizer of the initiative K&K - Bündnis Kunst und Kind and a member of the board of the BBK München und Oberbayern. Her works have been shown among others at A.K.T. Pforzheim, at 16th RischArt_Project ...Mischen, at ZIRKA, Munich, DG Kunstraum, Munich, Kunstverein Ebersberg, at Galerie 21, Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, at Städtische Galerie Böblingen, and Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.