Christiane Löhr

Christiane Löhr creates a unique sculptural and installation cosmos with materials from nature. She uses organic elements such as flying seeds, plant stems, burdocks, tree blossoms, horse and dog hair as construction material for her organic-abstract repertoire of forms. In a surprising way, she transforms the ephemeral materials into precisely constructed, delicate sculptures, sometimes filigree, sometimes expansive.
In keeping with the large-scale survey exhibition, the catalogue can be understood as a kind of anthology: Alongside current texts by Julia Wallner, Jutta Mattern, Astrid von Asten and Tiziano Scarpa, it combines essays by various authors on the artist's work from the past decades. It is supplemented by in situ photos of the spatial sculptures in the light-flooded building of the arp museum Bahnhof Rolandseck by Richard Meier, whose permeability is reminiscent of 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, time-related approaches to sculpture. Her works can be seen all over the world; among others, she was a participant in the 49th Biennale di Venezia curated by Harald Szeemann. Solo exhibitions have been dedicated to her at the Panza Collection, Varese, Kunsthaus Baselland, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal and Haus am Waldsee, Berlin.