Christiane Löhr

Christiane Löhr creates a unique sculptural and installation cosmos using materials from nature. She employs organic elements such as flying seeds, plant stems, burdock, tree blossoms, and horse and dog hair as construction materials for her organically abstract repertoire of forms. In a surprising manner, she transforms these ephemeral materials into precisely constructed, delicate sculptures, sometimes intricate, sometimes expansive.

In line with the large-scale overview exhibition, the catalog can be understood as a kind of anthology: alongside current texts by Julia Wallner, Jutta Mattern, Astrid von Asten, and Tiziano Scarpa, it brings together essays by various authors on the artist's work from the past decades. It is complemented by in situ photos of the spatial sculptures in the light-filled building of the arp museum Bahnhof Rolandseck by Richard Meier, which, in their transparency, evoke the fragile beauty of nature.

Christiane Löhr (*1965, Wiesbaden), who works in Cologne and Prato in Tuscany, is one of the most important voices in the current discourse on new, contemporary approaches to sculpture. Her works are exhibited worldwide, and she was a participant in the 49th Venice Biennale curated by Harald Szeemann. Solo exhibitions have been dedicated to her at the Panza Collection in Varese, Kunsthaus Baselland, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden in Wuppertal, and Haus am Waldsee in Berlin.