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Assistance I-VIII (Hilfestellung)
Artproject for a school sports center at Kniprodestraße 27, Berlin-Pankow; August 2016
Client: Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment/Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science, Berlin. Architect: Ingrid Hentschel, Hentschel-Oestreich Archcitects
Fotos: Rolf Kalsike
Steel, laser cut, varnished; Painting on concrete
The sports center belongs to two different Berlin vocational schools: Elinor Ostrom-School and Jane Addams School. The starting point for my art project are the large, floor to ceiling glass doors that divide the long corridors of the building. I projected the contour of the door frames on the walls like distorted silhouettes, which playfully interrupt the stressed vertical perspectives of architecture. Within this framework I placed symbolic figures like shadows of drawings, etched imaginary into the glass surfaces of the doors. All "silhouettes" are from laser cut steel, vanished in a dark gray and placed in front of the walls. So they get a strong sculptural presence.
The access doors to the different floors are normally closed, but the smoke control doors in the hallways are permanently open. That means that a part of the art piece would be behind the glass of the door - like a picture. So I changed my idea and decided to work "only" with painting here, not with metal elements. I inverted the color to have bright objects on a dark (reflecting!) background. The door frame becomes a picture frame.
In school sports is the cooperation of the participants of particular importance. This applies not only to team sports. Many individual exercises can be practiced only by assistance. My figures are in a mutual dependency of support or balance and it´s not always clear who provides assistance here.
Part of the work was a participative project with students of the Elinor Ostrom-School. They posed for the figures, so their faces are portraits of some students.
Wolf von Waldow 2016
Jury statement by Sven Kalden, Chair of the Prize Committee:
“The silhouettes placed on the corridor doors have the power to break up the strictly orthogonal architectural language and give the hallways an engaging character. The easily accessible motifs of the silhouettes critically yet humorously address various aspects of sport, which has been particularly well received by the schools. In the artistic design, the doors are integrated into an intelligent play of relief and shadow. … Overall, the work outstandingly fulfills the competition’s objective of enhancing the perception of the building through the presence of art.”