Tilman Wendland
28. Januar – 20. März 2011

Tilman Wendland's exhibition was created in Arnsberg. His works begin with a spatial analysis on site and deal with the conditions of the building that shape its character. The material for his exhibition, a large roll of folding boxboard, comes from Arnsberg and "is produced where it always steams" (Wendland). The paper factory with its cloud characterizes the city's night landscape.

Wendland's temporary works are based on a formal and thematic examination of the location. The design is also determined by the format and the properties of the material. The fragility, lightness and inherent tension of a sheet of paper as well as the white color demand a refocusing. In intensive processes, he engages with the cardboard material, develops principles for transforming the sheet into a body and at the same time explores the cardboard's own life in the context of its surrounding space. In this way, Wendland uses simple sculptural means to explore the spaces for new possibilities in order to achieve a special relationship between object, surrounding space and viewer.

The space is redefined. It is about things, corners and details that are often overlooked, but now suddenly become visible and react to each other. Through Wendland's interventions, architectural elements of the house not only become legible, but also an important part of the artwork.

Tilman Wendland was born in Potsdam in 1969 and lives in Berlin. He has had his most recent solo exhibitions at the Heidelberger Kunstverein (2010), the Kunstverein Schwerin (Wemag Art Prize 2010) and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland (2010) as well as participating in exhibitions at the Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2009), the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2009) and the Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, Mexico City (2008).