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Daniel Stubenvoll
Beyond Limits 2
30 April–12 June, 2022
In his exhibition ‘Beyond Limits 2’, Daniel Stubenvoll relates the theme of urban development to the phenomenon of knock-offs and copies. Stubenvoll’s art practice is characterised by intensive walks in cities, observations on accessibility and the discovery of peculiarities in buildings. His works make use of quotations, repetitions of form and breaks in the buildings that surround us as well as in his (own) visual world.
To visualise construction projects, the real estate and construction industries use images that repeat a standard repertoire of urban or rural life. In their implementation, too, standardised materials and set pieces are used. Stubenvoll’s series ‘Entity Models’ (2022) breaks away from this by using handmade originals. For this, he studied metal gadgets on doors and windows in detail. His works seem to have a purpose in mind as if created for use around the house –a bell, a sign, a ladder or a foot grille, for example.
His book ‘Bootleg’ (2022) and the series ‘MK: 1995 vision for 2020’ (2022) explore the concept of copying and framing as essential components of aesthetic expression. Historical images of Milton Keynes, an English new town, serve as a starting point. The works consist of found footage material from the publication ‘Helmut Jacoby. Architectural Drawings 1968–1976’ as well as from a marketing film from 1995, which envisages the future of Milton Keynes in 2020. The term bootleg refers to a form of pirate copy. Copying and quotation play a major role in architecture and the discourse surrounding it: Stubenvoll has ‘stolen’ this exhibition title from his own book ‘Beyond Limits’ (Zurich/Beijing 2020).
Daniel Stubenvoll (*1984 in Giengen, lives in Frankfurt am Main) studied at the Kassel Art Academy with Bjørn Melhus, Bernhard Prinz and Florian Slotawa, and graduated as a Meisterschüler under Johanna Schaffer in 2014. In 2021, he received a travel grant to Japan from the Hessische Kulturstiftung. Most recently, his work has been shown at Basis Frankfurt (2020), the Kunstverein Ulm (2019), the Municipal Gallery Nordhorn (2019), the Itoshima Arts Farm Fukuoka Festival (2018), the MMCA Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (2018) and the Bangkok Biennial (2018). Daniel Stubenvoll’s first institutional solo exhibition Pyramids at the Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2016) explored the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in architecture.
The programme of the exhibition:
Wednesday 3 May 2022, 7 pm
The Kunsthalle Lingen is coming to the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim for the third time with its Philosophical ‘Wurzeltisch’. Together with Tammo Jansen (philosopher), the table guests are invited to discuss the roots of Plato’s concept of art.
Saturday 21 May 2022, 7 pm
Interview with Katharina Böttger: Presentation of the CityLab at the Historical Museum Frankfurt, which has been integrated into the permanent exhibition since it reopened in autumn 2017. From 2010 to 2017, its exhibitions took place outside the HMF mostly in places untypical for a museum such as an outdoor pool, a decommissioned car dealership or a park. The CityLab works together with Frankfurt residents to research the subjective perception and experience of the city.
Sunday 22 May 2022, 4 pm
‘Art for all’: Johanna Balderhaar (an art teacher at the Lise Meitner secondary school and chairwoman of the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim) will introduce the exhibition Beyond Limits 2. This format is intended for anyone curious about art, and who may not have had much contact with it up until now.
Saturday 11 June 2022, 2-5 pm
Architecture workshop for children (9-12 years): Jenny Meyer (prospective architect, BA from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau-Roßlau, MA at TH Cologne) gives a short introduction to adobe construction. After discussing the exhibition together with curator Muriel Meyer, the participants will make models from wood and clay of their ideal home, village or city.
Sunday 12 June 2022, 4 pm
Closing day of the exhibition with artist’s talk
Catalogue:
A catalogue with the title ‘Genius loci’ will be published to accompany the exhibition. It contains a selection of 14 works by Daniel Stubenvoll from 2015 to 2022, which are linked, directly or indirectly, to the exhibition ‘Beyond Limits 2’ at the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim. All of the works presented in the catalogue examine urban architecture and are presented with a summary by the author Isabelle Tondre. Texts by Nouria Behloul, Sina Brückner-Amin, Muriel Meyer, and Cem Özsoy shed light on the content and aesthetic dimensions of Stubenvoll’s work in different ways. The catalogue is designed by Ronja Andersen with photographs by Jens Gerber and published by DISTANZ.
Daniel Stubenvoll. Genius loci
Catalogue release
Saturday 6 August 2022, 4-9 pm
Café Corretto
Stiftstraße 9-17
Frankfurt
Monday 8 August 2022, 7-9 pm
Deppe Backstein-Keramik GmbH
Neuenhaus Str. 82
Uelsen
The exhibition and the programme are supported by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and the Stadt- und Samtgemeinde Neuenhaus. The catalogue is supported by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, the city Frankfurt am Main and private
supporters.
Links
> Kunsthalle Lingen
> CityLab, Historical Museum Frankfurt
> DISTANZ
Beyond Limits 2
30 April–12 June, 2022
In his exhibition ‘Beyond Limits 2’, Daniel Stubenvoll relates the theme of urban development to the phenomenon of knock-offs and copies. Stubenvoll’s art practice is characterised by intensive walks in cities, observations on accessibility and the discovery of peculiarities in buildings. His works make use of quotations, repetitions of form and breaks in the buildings that surround us as well as in his (own) visual world.
To visualise construction projects, the real estate and construction industries use images that repeat a standard repertoire of urban or rural life. In their implementation, too, standardised materials and set pieces are used. Stubenvoll’s series ‘Entity Models’ (2022) breaks away from this by using handmade originals. For this, he studied metal gadgets on doors and windows in detail. His works seem to have a purpose in mind as if created for use around the house –a bell, a sign, a ladder or a foot grille, for example.
His book ‘Bootleg’ (2022) and the series ‘MK: 1995 vision for 2020’ (2022) explore the concept of copying and framing as essential components of aesthetic expression. Historical images of Milton Keynes, an English new town, serve as a starting point. The works consist of found footage material from the publication ‘Helmut Jacoby. Architectural Drawings 1968–1976’ as well as from a marketing film from 1995, which envisages the future of Milton Keynes in 2020. The term bootleg refers to a form of pirate copy. Copying and quotation play a major role in architecture and the discourse surrounding it: Stubenvoll has ‘stolen’ this exhibition title from his own book ‘Beyond Limits’ (Zurich/Beijing 2020).
Daniel Stubenvoll (*1984 in Giengen, lives in Frankfurt am Main) studied at the Kassel Art Academy with Bjørn Melhus, Bernhard Prinz and Florian Slotawa, and graduated as a Meisterschüler under Johanna Schaffer in 2014. In 2021, he received a travel grant to Japan from the Hessische Kulturstiftung. Most recently, his work has been shown at Basis Frankfurt (2020), the Kunstverein Ulm (2019), the Municipal Gallery Nordhorn (2019), the Itoshima Arts Farm Fukuoka Festival (2018), the MMCA Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul (2018) and the Bangkok Biennial (2018). Daniel Stubenvoll’s first institutional solo exhibition Pyramids at the Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2016) explored the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in architecture.
The programme of the exhibition:
Wednesday 3 May 2022, 7 pm
The Kunsthalle Lingen is coming to the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim for the third time with its Philosophical ‘Wurzeltisch’. Together with Tammo Jansen (philosopher), the table guests are invited to discuss the roots of Plato’s concept of art.
Saturday 21 May 2022, 7 pm
Interview with Katharina Böttger: Presentation of the CityLab at the Historical Museum Frankfurt, which has been integrated into the permanent exhibition since it reopened in autumn 2017. From 2010 to 2017, its exhibitions took place outside the HMF mostly in places untypical for a museum such as an outdoor pool, a decommissioned car dealership or a park. The CityLab works together with Frankfurt residents to research the subjective perception and experience of the city.
Sunday 22 May 2022, 4 pm
‘Art for all’: Johanna Balderhaar (an art teacher at the Lise Meitner secondary school and chairwoman of the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim) will introduce the exhibition Beyond Limits 2. This format is intended for anyone curious about art, and who may not have had much contact with it up until now.
Saturday 11 June 2022, 2-5 pm
Architecture workshop for children (9-12 years): Jenny Meyer (prospective architect, BA from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau-Roßlau, MA at TH Cologne) gives a short introduction to adobe construction. After discussing the exhibition together with curator Muriel Meyer, the participants will make models from wood and clay of their ideal home, village or city.
Sunday 12 June 2022, 4 pm
Closing day of the exhibition with artist’s talk
Catalogue:
A catalogue with the title ‘Genius loci’ will be published to accompany the exhibition. It contains a selection of 14 works by Daniel Stubenvoll from 2015 to 2022, which are linked, directly or indirectly, to the exhibition ‘Beyond Limits 2’ at the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim. All of the works presented in the catalogue examine urban architecture and are presented with a summary by the author Isabelle Tondre. Texts by Nouria Behloul, Sina Brückner-Amin, Muriel Meyer, and Cem Özsoy shed light on the content and aesthetic dimensions of Stubenvoll’s work in different ways. The catalogue is designed by Ronja Andersen with photographs by Jens Gerber and published by DISTANZ.
Daniel Stubenvoll. Genius loci
Catalogue release
Saturday 6 August 2022, 4-9 pm
Café Corretto
Stiftstraße 9-17
Frankfurt
Monday 8 August 2022, 7-9 pm
Deppe Backstein-Keramik GmbH
Neuenhaus Str. 82
Uelsen
The exhibition and the programme are supported by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur and the Stadt- und Samtgemeinde Neuenhaus. The catalogue is supported by the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, the Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, the city Frankfurt am Main and private
supporters.
Links
> Kunsthalle Lingen
> CityLab, Historical Museum Frankfurt
> DISTANZ
