OBJEKT ID: 320-0022

Live phase online auction / monitor, 7:32 min (loop) HD / 92 x 53 x 5 cm / 2020
Purchase contracts in concrete (document roll no. 17/2020) / cast concrete, pigment, purchase contract ( printed paper, yarn, seal ) / 30 x 22,3 x 0,5 cm / 2020
Cadastral map, parcel 9/45, Altwigshagen district, scale 1:1 / laying chip, latex paint, foil print / 225 x 225 x 1,2 cm / 2020
Object descriptions for: Parcel 9/45; from: Roll of deeds No. 17/2020, Annex 1 / foil plot / 150 x 150 cm / 2020
Extract from the land register / photo of the object and surroundings / fineart print, sticky note / 100 x 70 cm / 2020

For my project TERRITORIAL OBJECTS, I am auctioning real estate from the remaining holdings of a subsidiary of the “Treuhandanstalt“, the BVVG, via an Internet auction platform. Splinter and rounding off areas, narrow strips of land, traffic areas, former ditch plots etc., almost unusable small areas are the focus of my interest. The remaining plots of land of the former GDR national property are located in rural areas and are hardly perceptible relics of the failure of collectivization in GDR times and stand for the repressed, suppressed and excluded of a "post-socialist" time.

Through my acquisition and the cultural appropriation associated with it, I question the ideology in which land is advertised as a capital and security investment. The GDR-affiliation inscribed in the land register and the subsequent reprivatization by the Treuhand (privatization agency) I add another common trace. With my signature I complete the intended liquidation of the respective properties, release them from the immaterial fog of their intermediate state and declare them discursive art objects.

In an analytical investigation I have dealt with the processes of acquisition and construction of land ownership. Derived from this, various objects and installative interventions have emerged that take an associative look at the inscriptions of the respective properties and react to the topography of the exhibition space.