Tilo Schulz: Stage Diver – An Engaging Spatial Art Installation at Secession

This exhibition features Tilo Schulz's 'Stage Diver,' a site-specific installation designed for the Secession. The work comprises three interconnected mahogany rooms that transform the exhibition space into a dynamic 'transition space' for visitors, encouraging reflection and interaction.

Tilo Schulz's exhibition 'Stage Diver' at the Secession showcases a unique spatial installation conceived specifically for the venue. The artwork consists of three contiguous rooms constructed from elegant mahogany panels, weaving through the gallery's architecture and creating a subtle experiential and experiential space for visitors. The installation begins as a stage, transforms into a closed cabinet displaying the artist's drawings, and culminates in a long catwalk that extends to the far end of the exhibition room, where a stack of casually placed Thonet chairs suggests a long-abandoned location. The exhibition is designed to be experienced by visitors actively traversing the installation. The "room within a room" constantly transforms, serving as a "transition space" and a platform for action, intended to evoke memories, associations, and self-reflection. The installation adapts to the existing architecture of the exhibition space, mimicking its forms while maintaining its own distinct autonomy. The partially visible external structure of beams evokes temporary architectures such as theater backdrops. The perfect interior aesthetic and the noble mahogany surface stand in stark contrast to the provisional character conveyed by the exterior. The work of Tilo Schulz is situated at the intersections of art and craft, architecture and design, and high and popular culture. Questions of presentation and representation, of individual perception and the social or political instrumentalization of art are central and recurring themes in Schulz's works and exhibitions. The artist, who often works as a curator himself, dedicates as much attention to the staging of the exhibition path, of sightlines, and spatial sequences as he does to the visitors, whom he includes from the outset. Schulz sometimes invites them to become actors in his exhibitions, a process he calls "activation." A characteristic of Tilo Schulz's work is the intensive engagement with the formal language of modernism. His interest in and the criticism expressed in the works regarding the (historical) debate between politically instrumentalized art in the former totalitarian systems of the East and the supposedly free art of the West are closely linked to the artist's biography, as he was born in the GDR in 1972. In his works, he combines these supposedly contradictory and rivalrous formal languages and argues against the unambiguous legibility and immutability of visual signs and aesthetic forms.

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