The works of the sculptor Lisa Seebach (*1981) unfold a dystopian space that leads from the measurable world into an imaginary reality. The starting point is the artist’s hand drawings, which she stages as steel structures and balances with ceramic counterweights between materiality and dematerialization. Abstract and mysteriously distorted, the sculptures suggest objects such as gas bottles or oil drums, which thus become aesthetic actors in a poetic and enigmatic staging. This creates a paradoxical scene full of associative metanarratives between post-apocalyptic science fiction and black utopia.

The art installation becomes a space of action in which the sculptures act as symbols. The individual objects move between potential threat and possible way out of the dystopia. These can be interpreted individually on the basis of subjective experiences, but are firmly anchored in our common present. Whether pandemics, climate crisis or the increase in conflicts and wars – the expectation of an apocalyptic world seems to be growing. But Seebach does not provide a direction, because her offerings are fragile and fleeting. Every attempt to gain an overview fails and so it is up to the visitors to develop their own fictional narrative. 

Lisa Seebach (*1981 in Cologne, DE) currently lives and works in Potsdam. She studied at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts and completed her diploma in fine arts in 2013 under Prof. Raimund Kummer, Prof. Corinna Schnitt and Prof. Candice Breitz. She then became a master student of Prof. Thomas Rentmeister in 2014. Her work has already been recognized with several prestigious scholarships and awards. These include a work and project scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds as well as the New York scholarship from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, USA.