Gregor Schneider
Totes Haus Ur : La Biennale di Venezia 2001
herausgegeben von Udo Kittelmann

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Editor(s)

Udo Kittelmann

Publication, year

Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2001

Scope

103 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

3775710442

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Since the eighties Gregor Schneider has devoted his attentions to the construction of rooms, to the complicated relationship between constructed space and individual, and to the interchange between place and psychological state. For the Venice project Schneider transferred extensive sections of his otherwise private house, the so-called Haus ur in Rheydt, to the German pavilion in Venice. Crossing the threshold, entering this house, taking a look behind the scenes of the monumental portal is equivalent to taking a path into the depths, indeed the abyss, of the Ego - and thereby to the source of its collective phenomena

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Person as subject

Gregor Schneider

Location

Cabinet 7 - 3: Kunstenaars

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

Mit biographie.