Sara Wu’s exhibition “Placeholder” on view at Künstlerhaus Bethanien until June 15

In her exhibition Placeholder at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Sara Wu places the audience in an unusual spatial situation: an elongated construction blocks the wandering gaze, a contemplative lingering seems impossible. Blank spaces in the walls emphasize the architectural construction and its placement in the space, interrupted by sculptural elements that appear like the memory of a use or activity and yet seem alien in their location.
Embedded in the corridor, a landscape of “systems” opens up. This is what the artist calls the collection of modified objects. Objects of everyday consumption in unusual proportions transform conventional notions of their functionality into the absurd and merge with the model-like architecture to create surreal collages. The result is a landscape of things that have been stripped of their function and reorganized and transformed according to purely aesthetic categories.
The nested space, the unusual proportions and superimpositions of the objects break with everyday patterns of perception. Although fully anchored in the realm of Euclidean space and physically tangible, Sara Wu’s spatial construction gives the impression of a digital architectural sketch or a virtual rendering. As with glitches (digital image flaws) the boundaries between real space and its representation become blurred.

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KB | Placeholder

Where: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10
10999 Berlin

When:
11.04. – 15.06.2025
Wed – Sun: 2 – 7pm
Admission free

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