sculptural crossing
Danylo Halkin – Gereon Krebber – Agata Michowska

curated by: Georg Elben und Tomasz Wendland
participating artists: Danylo Halkin, Gereon Krebber, Agata Michowska
opening: Sunday, July 7th 2024 at 12.00 noon

The summer exhibition sculptural crossing at the Skulpturenmuseum Marl is dedicated to its name-giving three-dimensional art form: three international sculptors are each showing one of their expansive works in the three exhibition rooms of the temporary building. In addition, another small-format work reacts to, complements or accompanies their own position in the space. Despite their individual backgrounds, they form aesthetic alliances, overlap in their artistic approach to the material and reveal astonishing parallels in the structuring and appropriation of the space. These observations come together in sculptural crossing and question the changing, multifaceted production methods of sculpture in the 21st century.

While Gereon Krebber recreates the shape of a fish trap with a symbolic form bent out of steel, Agata Michowska transfers fragile glass objects from former street lamps from Poznan into the exhibition space. Danylo Halkin also anchors his work in contemporary history and geography by installing the remains of a chandelier from the Salyut cinema in Dnipro, Ukraine, which was built in the style of socialist modernism and demolished in 2021.

The exhibition opens on July 7, 2024 at 12.00 noon on the terrace of the Skulpturenmuseum. Georg Elben will speak introductory words with the co-curator of the exhibition Tomasz Wendland. The three artists Danylo Halkin, Gereon Krebber and Agata Michowska from Paris, Cologne and Poznan will also be present.