SOS, 2019 Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung EIGENBEDARF haben Stefan Alber und Peter Dobroschke die Flaggenmasten des Kunststandort Uferhallen besetzt. An der Hofeinfahrt positioniert, wanderten die Schatten der wehenden Flaggen mal über das Gelände, mal nach draußen. Anstelle des Firmenlogos der Uferhallen AG, war für eine unbestimmte Zeit „WAS FÜR WEN“ und aus der anderen […]
AEROPALCO, 2019 Stefan Alber just reproduced 1:3 the Fiat Tagliero Petrol Station’s roof. The building’s flighty design is widely understood as a problematic nod to Italy’s Fascist history; it was built just months after the country’s airplanes dispensed thousands of sulfur mustard shells over Eritrea, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians. During construction, […]
RENAISSANCE, 2014/2019 “Renaissance„(2014) is a detailed replica of the „2643 Park Avenue Hotel“ in Detroit, built in 1925 as a luxury hotel and closed in the late 1960s during the industrial decline of the city. After several decades of vacancy and various failed conversions (including a home for the elderly and a homeless shelter), […]
IMMOBILIENGARDEROBE, 2018 Inspired by the relentless reconstruction plans for the heritage-protected Uferhallen, a former factory building serving as artists’ studios in Berlin, Stefan Alber and Peter Dobroschke developed the installation “Immobiliengarderobe (Real Estate Wardrobe)“. Through a window front one looks into a brightly lit studio. Contradictory to the „open studios“ with which the exhibition […]
INSTALLATION VIEW Where is Philadelphia?, Gutshaus Philadelphia, Storkow/Germany, 2019
Among many other things, the 20th century has brought about the realization that everything can be art. Consequently, every thing can become a work of art and every process, every raw material can become artistic material. Through this unlimited choice in contemporary art, the caption of an artwork became – besides its documentation – its […]
For the exhibition LIVING ROOM in the Berlin project space tête, Stefan Alber conceived an extensive sculpture that refers to the American interior designer Dorothy Draper, more precisely to the exhibition design of the overview show ‘The high style of Dorothy Draper’ dedicated to her in the Museum of the City of New York. Draper […]
Exhibition view „Eau&Gaz“ Workshop Eppan/Italy, 08.04.-08.05.2016