In his work, artist Philipp Messner explores complex questions of perception: Where are the boundaries between art and nature? How do impressions of artificiality or naturalness arise? How do digital experiences change the relationship between object, viewer, and space? And how does this change shape our analog reality?
He arranges his sculptures and artworks into multi-layered spatial installations, creating surreal landscapes through which exhibition visitors move as if through a kind of course.
His sculptures arise from a tension between paradoxical conceptual ideas and respond to the architecture of the Villa Stuck studio building; this is particularly evident in the installation created especially for this location—a “house within a house” in Franz von Stuck’s artist villa.
The Rathausgalerie Munich presents this solo exhibition by Philipp Messner in cooperation with the Museum Villa Stuck.
Curated by Nina Oswald and Michael Buhrs.