2017 – ROOM WITH A VIEW

This project was entirely funded by the Alexander Tutsek Foundation.

View of a window from the Alte Pinakothek Museum. Picture taken in the museum in 2015.
July 2017, AdbK Munich Art Academy, Atelier Prof. Gregor Schneider. The museum’s glass panes did replace the Atelier glass panes. Ten windows were left unsealed to allow air to penetrate the exhibition space.


Size of each pane of laminated safety glass: 94/83 cm

The defective panes were recovered from the museum’s renovation site and replaced the panes in the studio, which had the same dimensions. Thirty of the forty panes were replaced and ten windows were left empty to allow air to circulate.

Drips of UV and infrared filters that had appeared over time between the layers of glass generated abstract drawings. These defective filters, intended to protect the paintings of the great masters, attracted the viewer’s eye to the outside on the city side of the museum. I moved these glass panes to the park side of the academy, from the place where art is ‘received’ to the place where it is ‘produced’.

By questioning what can be observed from the space of the museum or the space of the studio (reality or the work of art), I have revealed a moving filter in the image of our subjectivity.

View over the park of the Academy of Fine Arts from the windows formerly belonging to the Alte Pinakothek Museum. Picture: IngridDorner
Alte Pinakothek windows view in the exhibition space of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

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Picture taken in the museum in 2015
Picture taken in Munich art academy in 2017
Glass panes recovered from the museum’s rubbish bin. One pane hammered during mounting, AbdK, 2017
Glass pane exhibited in AdbK. Picture: Garance Arcadias
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AdbK Munich 2017. Picture: Ingrid Dorner

SERIE OF THIRTEEN PINAKOTHEK WINDOWS HEATED IN GLAS OVEN

Each glass pane reacts differently to the heat of the oven, depending on the firing time (200 – 1000 C° degrees)

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Five of the thirteen windows burnt out in the glass furnace, AdbK 2018
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VOID PRINTS

This project was entirely funded by the Alexander Tutsek Foundation.

View of the installation in the main hall of the new building of the AdBK Munich.

Cyanotypes on canvas: 1000 X 200 cm, 8 pieces
Oven-worked safety glass panes: 83/83 cm, 13 pieces

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Canvas dipped in a photosensitive product were stretched in front of the studio windows. These windows, which had been replaced a few months earlier by defective glass from the Alte Pinakothek Museum, revealed their UV filters to be still active. Only the empty window frames provided an impression of the sky.

Cotton canvas dyed in light-sensitive material, applied against the missing panes of the exhibition windows. The thirty defective UV protection panes still served their purpose and prevented the sun from shining through the panes. Only the ten missing panes of glass were able to print the void. October 2017, Munich art academy, entrance hall.

A video of the creation process is available in the “videos” section of the website.

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View of the installation in AdbK main hall. Picture: K. Ryohei
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View of the installation in AdbK main hall. Picture: K. Ryohei
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