Neue Heimat – Kleintierställe (New home – small animal barns)

Installation: 15./16. June 2019
Artist Talk with Dr. Peter Lodermeyer on June 16, 2019
Peter Lodermeyer published an essay about this project in the catalog Hühnerhaus Volksdorf, Vol. 7.

"Hühnerhaus Volksdorf"  was an art project space located in a former chicken coop in Hamburg-Volksdorf, built in 1939. It was privately operated by the artist Edith Sticker from 2010 to 2024.

Stable, tent, roof are shelters, are original forms of habitation. They form places of retreat, but also starting points for exploring the world. In the currant political discourse, however, positively connoted concepts such as shelter and rescue are increasingly discredited and surrounded by an aura of mistrust. The "Hühnerhaus Volksdorf" is dressed like a protective vest in bright orange from the outside. Inside, a colony of small birdhouses spreads, reminiscent in shape of surveillance cameras. They are each individually designed with a front that takes up typical suburban architectural forms as they are found in the neighborhood. The perches stuck out far into the room and are pointed at the end like a lance. The visitor must be careful when entering the room.

The installation was created in the context of Hamburger Architektursommer 2019

Wolf von Waldow, 2019