Barbara Koch, Beyond Control, Installation, Silicone and fluorescent pigments, 2020, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Alte Villa
Barbara Koch, Lab Beasts #4_2020, Wall sculpture, silicone, fluorescent pigments on canvas, approx. 120 x 110 x 27 cm
Barbara Koch, Still from a zoom presentation for the project "7000 Schmetterlinge" for greenhouse.ruhr, 2020
I am interested in the boundaries between temptation and poisoning, attraction and aversion. I interpret alienation. These thoughts can be found in room-sized installations as well as in the color-intensive, garishly glowing (wall) objects made of silicone. Fluorescent color and proliferating structures, feelers, tentacles, protrusions or bubbles characterize these works. They protrude into the space, threatening to take it over and blow it up. Furthermore, with my urban gardening project of the edible forest garden "7000 Butterflies" I sensitize people of the Dortmund Nordstadt for biodiversity and creative changes of their living environment.
