Johannes Albers: Johannes Albers | New works 02. December 2016 - 31. January 2017

If there is a dark side of art it might be under a rug somewhere, under a lost staircase together with rubble and dirt, where nobody gives a damn. And we look at those places they do tell their forsaken, silent story. When we die, the bacteria in our body throw a big party. Life goes on after all of us. It is those places that Albers wants to reproduce and remind us about with his new work.

Nietzsche puts it this way: "Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history", but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die." [1]

But what a minute are we having?

[1] Friedrich Nietzsche: On Truth and Lies in a Normal Sense (1873)