»Roof« 2001
Installation at the annual exhibition / Lothstraße
Material : roofing tiles, wood, plaster boards
The room in which the roof
was exposed is situated on the third floor of the former Herz-Zentrum
München (Central Hospital for Heart Diseases) at Lothstrasse.
The hospital was built in the mid 1960ies. It's appearance in
the neighbourhood is rather strikingas it is surrounded by the
older buildings of Munich/Neuhausen.
The hospital was rented out to the Academy of Fine Arts when the main building
was in the process of renovation.
As a reaction to the immediate environment I established the installation in
my studio that reflected the architecture from the opposite building.
One entered the room to find oneself under a truss. From there, through an opening
in the roof one entered another room lit by a bulb (20 W). The normally existing
windows of the room were removed and boarded up with a cardboard wall. A tiny
slit in the wall made it possible to see the house across. The room's temperature
adjusted to the temperature outside and a light wind blew into the room due to
the removal of the windows.