Ein eigener Raum | RANDI RENATE in Berlin
Berlin art space ROCKELMANN& initiated a Summer Break project as a two month long curatorial & artist residency program designed to provide young art professionals with the physical space of ROCKELMANN&, as well as the technical and creative support during the exhibition production. The first installment presents US artist Randi Renate.
Ein Eigener Raum (a study), 2015, aluminum-plated board, chocolate, 240 cm x 120 cm x 300 cm. Photo Credit @ David Dollmann
EIN EIGENER RAUM
new works
Randi Renate
July 24 – September 20, 2015
ROCKELMANN&, Berlin
PR Info _ Analogous to Virginia Woolf’s extended essay, EIN EIGENER RAUM is a room of one’s own. Capturing the phenomena of what it means to ‘feel at home,’ and further conflating the boundary between public and private space, Randi Renate employs architectonic installations and abstracted vignettes to transport the viewer into a familiar space of the home. What liberties are given to an individual with a private place of being? Inspired by the artist’s own biography, the work invites viewers to wander and to question their own construction of their place, memories, and comfort.
Throughout her practice, Randi Renate has explored the individual subject within the world and contemporary notions of place, identity, and community. In writing about a subjective experience, one also engages in a broader societal narrative. By distilling these narrative experiences into abstracted phenomenological sculptures, Randi Renate offers the viewer fragments of her own experiential lens.
Info + illus. courtesy ROCKELMANN&
