Sarah Ortmeyer at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden / Baden-Baden

Sarah Ortmeyer
BADEN BADEN


Curated by
Moritz Scheper



July 2 – August 28, 2016



Sarah Ortmeyer’s exhibition BADEN BADEN (German for „swim
swim“) at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden weaves together leitmotifs from the
artist’s previous shows and develops them further. In Paris, one thousand
marbleized raw eggs were placed under palm trees in lieu of coconuts, and
subsequently projected into a dome forming a starry sky in New York. The grey
hues of the eggs and stars are echoed in the branches of the palm trees which
Ortmeyer showed at Belvedere in Vienna – to recur in the six bath robes
framed in display caskets lining the wall. Initially created as show costumes
for pop stars for a concert at MoMA PS1, the bath robes tie the show to the spa
town of Baden-Baden. In the manner of devotional objects, the robes are
exhibited in a chromatic sequence from traffic gray to dusty gray into
platinum grey. A sorry palette for a world on fire. 

BADEN BADEN Series, 2016

KOKO 1
KOKO 2
KOKO 3
KOKO 4

BADEN BADEN I
BADEN BADEN II
BADEN BADEN III
BADEN BADEN IV
BADEN BADEN V
BADEN BADEN VI

VALIUM VALENTINE 1
VALIUM VALENTINE 2
VALIUM VALENTINE 3
VALIUM VALENTINE 4
VALIUM VALENTINE 5
VALIUM VALENTINE 6



Images courtesy the artist and Kunsthalle Bade-Baden (Photo: Karolina Sobel), Belveder and MoMa PS1