An office as an artistic project in a company GALLERY?
An architectural reproduction in model form, inhabited by fish?
 
On the occasion of Open Art 2003 and its 200th exhibition, the Galerie aktueller Kunst im Osram Haus is presenting a special project, "Company", which takes a closer look at the functional and formal structure of the building.
 
Opening event:
9 September 2003, 7:00 pm
 
Press preview:
9 September 2003, 12:00 pm
 
Exhibition dates:
10 September - 21 November 2003
 
GALLERY hours:
Weekdays from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
 
Stehle's Office Hours:
Mon, Tue, Wed 9:00 - 13:00 am (subject to change)
Tel: 49.89.6213-2363
 
Open Art:
12 September, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
13/14 September, 12:00 noon - 6:00 pm
 
Address:
Hellabrunner Strasse 1
81543 Munich, Germany
 
 
Wolfgang Stehle is showing his large-scale project, "Office Hours", an office installation, in which the artist regularly carries out his work and manages his own presence as a freelance contractor for OSRAM. In his work, Stehle looks at the day-to-day administrative process, which he graphically illustrates in his office architecture. The actual "work of art" is, in a very real sense, his workplace. The artist's workplace - not the light-flooded studio with easel and tubes of paint, but a desk with a telephone, typewriter and plants - confronts employees and visitors with an artistic reflection of their own everyday working life.

Martin W�hrl presents "Fishtank", an exhibition of architectural models, in which strict, geometric facade elements dominate the appearance of block-like home and office buildings. But these models are actually inhabited - by real fish. In his series, which takes an intensive look at 1960s architecture, W�hrl compares the functional definition of the buildings with their formal facades - the relationship between the interior and the exterior. He also focuses on the specific architecture of the Osram Haus, designed by Walter Henn in 1962.