For more than 15 years, the foyer of the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden has provided a platform for artistic interventions. National and international artists have repeatedly reinterpreted the foyer and café area, creating new perspectives on the space with each project. With its new Curtain Commissions format, the Kunsthalle invites artists to design its foyer using curtains.
The series kicks off with with an installation by Georgian-American artist Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili (b. 1979). Her printed, semi-transparent curtains frame the Kunsthalle’s entrance area. A sequence of images unfolds across the translucent panels. Alexi-Meskhishvili works with photography as a practice, exploring the possibilities of the medium. She composes her images from her own and found photographs, everyday objects, and ornaments, arranging the motifs, distorting them, and superimposing them using both analog and digital development processes. She treats her photographs as permeable spaces of various layers; here, this principle envelops the entire foyer.
Sammlung (collection) is an image archive and a contemporary cabinet of curiosities: an idiosyncratic selection of private motifs and public images. On display are the latest photographs of the moon, alongside photographic arrangements of flowers, toy eggs, and eyeballs made from candy. Together, they form a collection of images about existence, the senses, and the metaphysical, in which life unfolds in its entirety.