Artist Blog
Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.
1/6 TOTES HAUS u r, mixed media, La Biennale di Venezia, 2001, © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
2/6 u r 19 B, LIEBESLAUBE, mixed media, La Biennale di Venezia, 2001, © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
3/6 TOTES HAUS u r, mixed media, La Biennale di Venezia, 2001, © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
4/6 TOTES HAUS u r, mixed media, La Biennale di Venezia, 2001, © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
5/6 KELLER, mixed media, La Biennale di Venezia, 2001, © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
6/6 TOTES HAUS u r, mixed media, La Biennale di Venezia, 2001, © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn
Gregor Schneider
Feb 06, 2018 - Jouk Oosterhof
It was warm in Venice in 2001. Entering the ‘Totes Haus u r’ by Gregor Schneider gave me a nice coolness at first, but soon it made me freeze. For today I choose a work that has got to do with interiors again. The way I like them, with traces. But this time these traces are created by the artist. It was a true thriller experience walking from one room to the next. From a hallway to a moving room. Sometimes you had to bend to get to the next space. Seeing plastered walls and mysterious plastic bags. Soon all daylight was gone and the smell of damp appeared. I started to get worried. But when entering the cellar I was truly afraid this could be my last moment. And I wanted to get back into the heat as soon as possible.