BERLIN.- In his fifth solo exhibition with Galerie Guido W. Baudach, entitled Unclosure, Philipp Modersohn presents a new multifaceted installation in situ. Starting point is the examination of structures of demarcation and division that can lead to isolation. Possibilities for emancipation from these structures are explored using various everyday objects: a stone that cannot be categorised, a monitor that no longer displays anything and instead reveals its materiality made visible by heating, a room that opens up to an undefined weather event, ...

Parallel to the exhibition, the first comprehensive publication on Modersohn's artistic practice, entitled Attitudes of Stone, is being released by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite publishers, Berlin, edited by Wilma Lukatsch and the Kunstverein Oldenburg. The book contains short poetic and theoretical contributions by authors from various professions, pseudo-scientific diagrams, and an overview of the artist's previous site-specific installations and other works – creating a horizontal dialogue with collaborators as well as with the objects and processes themselves.

Philipp Modersohn, born 1986 in Bremen, lives and works in Berlin. He studied philosophy at the University of Potsdam as well as fine arts at the UdK Berlin and the Columbia University New York. In his multidisciplinary practice, Modersohn emphasizes the vibrancy of all terrestrial matter. In his films and videos, created using various animation techniques, he preferably features diverse non-human, often inorganic actors – stones, shells, peat chunks, etc. – who recount their respective existence. In his sculptures, which consist mainly of sediments and other originally earthbound materials such as sand, glass, concrete or plastics, Modersohn highlights the procedural and experimental aspect of art as well as the beauty of imperfection. Thereby, he draws on the decisive formative forces of planet Earth: pressure and heat. The results oscillate between interior and exterior objects and often have a concrete architectural or design reference. Philipp Modersohn is represented in private and public collections and has participated in several institutional exhibitions, including at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn (2022), the Kunstverein Göttingen (2020), and the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2018). His works are currently on display in the exhibition Notes on Becoming at the Oldenburger Kunstverein.

Truly good and, indeed, divine things are alive and active outside you and should be let in to work their changes. Such incursions formally instruct and enrich our lives in society (...). – Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet