SO WEIT, SO GUT

MDF, Plaster, Pigment, Headphones, 3-channel-audio piece by Lennart Häusser
2023
3x 30x15x380 cm/ 30x60x150cm
HFBK Hamburg/ Frappant Galerie: Told you I’ll be here forever
Photos: Jaewon Kim

Three power poles standing together in a loose group constellation. The white cube becomes a landscape in which the pylons face each other, loosely camouflaged in color, without their typical and meaningful spatial connections.
Nevertheless, there is an electricity box near them that offers three headphones. Listeners physically mirror the poles and hear an audio piece by Lennart Häusser in which encounters take place. These create a tableau of obligations, an image of appointments
and the evasion of them. Vague formulations and uncertainties in party, exhibition and institutional contexts are exchanged.
The question remains: What actually connects us?








FEST

Young Valley Soil 
Firehoses, Strings, Headphones, audio piece
2023
MOM ART SPACE: No more lonely laundry, curated by Cake & Cash curatorial collective
Photos: Laura Mahnke

Four voices entangle, sway, whisper, comfort and accompany each other. Sometimes noisy, sometimes tender, sometimes rythmic, sometimes drifting apart.









ES REGNET DURCHS DACH
DIE BAHN RAST VORBEI
AN SCHLAF IST NICHT ZU DENKEN

Ceramics, copper sheets, soapstone, glas, MDF, bass pump and amplifier
2022
Kunstverein Springhornhof: Bataklık Brezo Heath Hede Heide Lande Ljunghed пустошь Vresovisko
Photos: Elisa Nessler & Fred Dott

The bass vibration of a heartbeat is shaking the board, causing a stone shoulder blade and two ceramic spurs to amplify the beat in another sound.
Spurs clink and rattle, the stone knocks on glas, the steady sound becomes a never-ending, nerve-racking rhythm between drive and madness.
 







DU WIRFST MIR EIN WORT ZU UND IN DER LUFT WIRD ES ZU SPRACHE

together with Francisca Markus
fabric dyed with nettle / cabbage / turmeric
2021
Forest near Nottlun: With mosses, airs and bees, we dance along with trees, curated by Francisca Markus
Photos: Francisca Markus








CROSSINGS OF O

Young Valley Soil
Foil, paper, 2021
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof / HFBK Hamburg: See you th3re - Dialoge zwischen Fenstern, curated by Anne Meerpohl
Photos: Maik Gräf

Dialogue 2 of the five-part series "See U th3re" takes place between the artists Helena Müller and the collective Young Valley Soil, consisting of Elina Saalfeld, Elisa Nessler, Francisca Markus and Cristina Rüesch.
While Young Valley Soil calls on us to form an O with our mouths, Helena Müller invites us on a round trip in water vapor after sunset.
In their showcase exhibitions, the artists enter into a dialogue about processes of visualization: of gender stereotypes, coded meanings and the coincidental permanence of interpersonal encounters and alliances. The glass panes of the showcases play a special role here. The artists defy their spatial limitations and use the showcases from the inside and outside. They expand them auditorily, but also performatively as mediators of showing and concealing.
This is a beginning.
(Annette Hans)