Durch den Winter

Paul Niedermayer

Exhibition

10. Apr – 11. Nov 2021

ongoing series

Already situated in the most awkward of all neighborhoods, the winter marks a season of intensified absence and abandonment for the physical site of the Klosterruine. For the next 6 months, the artist Paul Niedermayer will regularly visit the Klosterruine and explore what is there and what is not. Reminiscent of Steve McQueens video work “Giardini” from 2009, the series focuses on an exhibition space during the temporary suspension of its prescribed function, and thus serves to trouble our understanding of urban environments with the human, working agent at its imaginary center. „Durch den Winter mit Paul Niedermayer“ aims to complicate our perception of Klosterruine and reveal its messy nature aka as a site of chance encounters, neglect and troubled beauty.

Paul Niedermayer (b. 1989) is an artist and lives and works in Berlin. She studied fine arts at Universität der Künste Berlin and at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. She has shown her work in the Casino Luxembourg Forum for Contemporary Art; Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Museum für Fotografie, Berlin; among others