MAX SUDHUES



SELECTION OF WORKS / EXHIBITION VIEWS


Nester, 2011


The Owl/ Die Eule, 2011


Hole Head, 2011


Inverted Invasion, 2011


Framework, 2007 / 2011


Seestück, 2010


Watery World, 2010


Approximately Infinite Universe, 2010


Medusa 1 / Medusa 2, 2009


I Love You But You Destroy Me/ About The In-Between, 2009


Plan und Planet, 2008


Turning Cities, 2008 - 2010


The world according to..., 2007


Nebensonne, 2007


Luna Park/Carousel, 2007


A Strange Park, 2007


Inner Space Boys, 2006


Nightskyliner, 2006




SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS


Buiten, Lambertushofpassage Hengelo, 2011


Dist-Ort, Domaquaree, Berlin 2010


Ghosts as Guests, Lichtkunstbiennale Ruhr, Open Light in private Spaces, 2010


Field Of Stars, Lemgo 2010


Kijken / To look, GLOW Eindhoven 2009


Eine Höhle für Platon, MontagStiftung Bildende Kunst, Bonn 2009


Lampenmemorial, Museum Bochum 2008


Die Sehnsucht der Zellen, Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile 2007


Dschungelfenster, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2006


Dschungelfenster, BauHausFischer, Wuppertal 2006




SOLO EXHIBITION VIEWS


Fear of Falling, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne 2010


Home Before Dark, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden 2010


PLUTO, Kunst Nu Ruimte, S.M.A.K. Gent 2008


Behausungen im Dschungel, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne 2008




PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS


Workshop and exhibition SPACE:OPEN, Jekaterinburg 2011


BRIZZEL, collaboration with Jon Moscow, Institut für skulpturelle Peripherie, Düsseldorf 2011


Herder Raum für Kunst, Cologne 2009





ABOUT MY WORK


While observing my work, I want the spectator to enter an environment that is both poetic and threatening, balancing on the verge of dreams and nightmares. In the tradition of the ‘collage’, I create (moving) images and spaces where the original objects remain visible, but faded, so that a number of associative interpretations may be possible. I try to achieve this through transforming banal and everyday objects through light projections, and to transform them to unexpected proportions and interpretations.


Each object retains its own functionality within the installation, but it is invariably connected to a bizarre, narrative and complex imaginary world. I am interested in different visual layers. Behind the trusted run-of-the-mill foreground, I am searching for moments of confusion and alienation, for apparitions that may try to ‘break open’ a normal perception.


In an ‘obstacle course’ of installations, various projections, video loops, photography, site specific interventions and a great range of combined materials, I want to explore the boundaries of analogue and digital, light and shade. Using different projection methods – from office lamp to beamer – I create images. 

I refer to the apparent static state of everyday affairs, which are, in reality, subject to constant change, to create allegorical, sometimes stirring worlds of pictures which, though man is absent from them, nevertheless indicate his actions and his standards in a field of tension spanning emotion, technology, architecture, society and nature.