Andrea Pichl
During her residency at the Bridderhaus, Andrea Pichl focuses on everyday architecture. Particularly urban and suburban details, which have become so much a part of our everyday lives that they escape our notice. By taking up these façade elements, staircases, forecourts and other particularities, Andrea Pichl establishes a vocabulary of architectural forms that have evolved with the city's eras and historical periods. In a built environment, we might find plaster from the 1930s supporting lighting from the 1960s, with windows redone in the 2000s, combined with coloured blinds from the 1980s. This overlapping of seemingly innocuous elements tells us a great deal about the history of a city and its inhabitants.
Andrea Pichl brings us face-to-face with an invisible history by focusing her photographic work on these details, which are part of a vernacular architecture that developed during the many transformations and periods of transition in the town of Esch-sur-Alzette.
Her method is that of the flâneur, the passer-by. Andrea Pichl takes a stroll and discovers the town in the process. She takes an outsider's look at the streets and houses of Esch-sur-Alzette, seeking out what makes the town so unique. An architectural character deeply rooted in the history of the southern metropolis.
Andrea Pichl will present some of her previous photographic work at the OpenHaus on 16 June 2024.
This residency will precede a major monographic exhibition entitled “Wertewirtschaft”, which the artist will present at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin from 08.11.2024 to 04.05.2025.
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