The Berlin Sessions:
Peter Wächtler on Hans-Christian Lotz

Dates

Tue, 21.02.17

Venue

1st floor Front building KW

Admission

Free entry, limited capacity

Hans-Christian Lotz (born 1980 in Hamburg, DE) often works with objects of technical or mechanical associations and a rather profane use: shopping center sliding doors installed on the blank wall, solar panels framing vacuum sealed compositions of organic matter or aluminum casts of styrofoam boxes with a raccoon bone on top. Although he refuses to add any cultural aspects to these disenchanted objects of commerce, trade, and progress, his more recent works invite different social connotations, link to private districts of modesty and fragility. Through the use of drugstore items (pet-beddings, Melitta boxes, ‘Goldmännchen’ tea bags) his work becomes more descriptive than gestural and more realistic than aesthetic. Realistic in the sense that whenever you will go visit the big cities of the world (Sydney, Paris, New York), you will always bring along your own Edeka. On February 21, the artist Peter Wächtler (born 1979 in Hannover, DE) presents aspects of Hans-Christians Lotz’s artistic practice.

Part of project: The Berlin Sessions

Since February 2017, KW Institute for Contemporary Art organized a series of monthly public talks in collaboration with various institutions and organizations located in Berlin. The series entitled The Berlin Sessions explored the fabric of cultural producers in the city by inviting one Berlin-based speaker to give a presentation on another cultural producer that he/she/they find inspiring. The goal of the lecture series was to highlight the work of Berlin-based creatives from the perspective of their peers; to map connections between the various producers and fields and to strengthen the existing networks between locally based artists, authors, musicians, performers, researchers and other creative producers.