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until 31.08. | #4313ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin presents from 22. June 2024 the exhibition Needs by the artist Tobias Hoffknecht.
Düsseldorf-based Tobias Hoffknecht is committed to both classical sculpture and minimalism. In his new solo exhibition “Needs” at Crone Berlin, new sculptures can now be seen that pick up on both influences and put our perception to the test.
Tobias Hoffknecht can’t help himself: time and again, he repeatedly confronts an overpowering opponent or friend — the omnipresent aesthetics of the Bauhaus that still abound today.
Hoffknecht’s minimalist, highly precise yet humorous sculptures raise the question of why Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) continues to dominate our everyday lives and our viewing habits; what its core, its meaning or perhaps even its sensuality actually is; why we cannot escape it and whether it is possible to reduce the reduced even further.
Tobias Hoffknecht, Courtesy Crone Berlin
For his new series Needs, Hoffknecht uses the visual Bauhaus metaphor to tell of the futility of the ephemeral even more forcefully than previously: heavy tubular steel structures are seemingly effortlessly swallowed up by walls, curved metal bodies sink into the floor with determined resistance — as if they were one with everything and present even in their disappearance.
With Hoffknecht, one can discover something like the pathology of things, or the need for psychotherapy for the object.
Tobias Hoffknecht was born in Bochum in 1987 and studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf under Rosemarie Trockel, where he now lives. His works can be found in important collections such as the Falckenberg Collection in Hamburg, the Soart in Vienna, and the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur in Bonn. They have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including in The Hague, Athens, Milan, Turin, New York, São Paolo, Vienna, Berlin, Cologne, and Madrid.
Vernissage: Friday, 21. June 2024, 7 – 9 pm
Exhibition period: Saturday, 22. June until Saturday, 31. August 2024
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Image caption: Tobias Hoffknecht, Courtesy Crone Berlin
Exhibition Tobias Hoffknecht – Crone Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
