Das Habitat

Concept_ Kunst am Bau competition for Adlershof School, Berlin 2024

The school can be seen as a large habitat. It provides children with all the necessary conditions for their development and well-being. A habitat is created to host life – a place with ideal physical and spatial conditions for a particular organism or community to live in. It offers protection and care for the living beings that inhabit it. Therefore, each of us needs a habitat in which we can grow up and form a community that, in turn, provides ideal conditions for our development.

With this sculpture, I connect the concept of habitat with the school building – a space for education and communal learning. I transform the art object into a living place of encounter, where different living beings and people meet as they pass through the sculpture. The form of the artwork, consisting of a series of vertical metal elements, is reminiscent of reeds, which are an important part of the natural landscape of Berlin and its surroundings.

In this project, I explore the artwork as a designed space between the obvious and the mysterious, creating an art object in which the viewer engages in a playful exchange between the variables of perception and the materiality of the work. An example of this is the arrangement of the materials in the sculpture, which creates visual permeability, allowing architecture and sculpture to merge. The architecture contains the artwork, but at the same time the artwork has the quality of revealing the building from new perspectives.

With this work, I want to create a sculpture-habitat where children, art, and nature come together. Since children can enter the artwork, a sense of belonging emerges. Everyone can discover the art object for themselves and activate their own senses.

Materials: metal pipes, stone, wood and plants