Martina Urmersbach. ZWECKbefreit

In the organizer's words:

28.9.2025 until 2.11.2025

Opening 28.9.2025, 4 pm

Artist talk 10.10.2025, from 4 pm

The exhibition with Krefeld artist Martina Urmersbach invites you to perceive and rediscover things from a different and sometimes very surprising perspective. Found objects and everyday items of all kinds form the basis for her objects. Her creative eye is directed towards things that are worn out, disregarded or seen as garbage, but also towards the banal things of everyday life, such as brushes, combs, soap dishes and nylon stockings. For her, they have a sensual quality all of their own that was previously hidden.

However, through processes such as fragmentation, destruction and reshaping, Urmersbach removes the banal and random from the found objects, and colors, shapes and structures come to the fore. In addition, she combines materials from different areas of use and attempts to reduce many things to their materiality and specific surface. New stories are told, for example, by tufts of red threads that once hung together as brushes in a car wash or black rubber yolk bands. But the artist is also fascinated by and uses the flooring material Stragula, which was once used as a substitute for linoleum, as it can be torn and bent wonderfully and is probably only remembered by very few people anyway. It is almost as if you are encountering everything in the exhibition for the first time.

Things have been given a new meaning with poetry, humor and sometimes a subtle obscurity that invites a smile, but above all confronts the viewer with unexpected visual phenomena. One also encounters creatures of which even the artist herself says: "Who knows what they do when it's dark."