New York-based artist Phoebe Washburn uses common and discarded materials to create sculptures that appear makeshift. The recycled cardboard and wood that she finds in dumpsters and in the street lend her sculptures an almost undulating, animated rhythm due to their different shapes and thicknesses. Washburn’s choice of material is often considered as a political statement, as a reflection of a society of excess, but she is far more interested in transforming discarded and ignored materials into something vivacious. Her constructions proliferating into the gigantic reflect the extreme growth of present-day cities and touch on themes of global relevance: ecological sustainability, renewable energy, recycling, social utopias.
Her commissioned work for Deutsche Guggenheim is to be seen in this context, a kind of plant factory titled Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow. Using found pieces of scrap wood, Washburn has created a seemingly amorphous roof surface inside which a conveyor belt loop is located. Through windows in the wall, visitors can follow the processes inside the factory, which produces “ground plots” nurtured and sustained in the factory. The conveyor belt loop transports these plots to different stations where they receive light and water, before finally being taken out and serving as the sod roof of the factory, where they will begin to wilt and atrophy.
Phoebe Washburn’s installations always tell the story of their making. Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow thus not only conveys the process of its genesis, it produces itself during the course of the exhibition, to decay in the end.
Curator
Joan Young, Guggenheim Museum New York
Location
Deutsche Guggenheim
Unter den Linden 13/15
10117 Berlin
Opening hours
Daily 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursdays to 10 p.m.
Including MuseumsShop and Café
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Catalogue and Edition
Catalogue in German and English with essays by Jan Avgikos and Ben Hamper as well as an interview between the artist and the curator (€ 28,50).
As Edition No. 40 RFMM Gardeners Schedule Study, Phoebe Washburn drew 20 project sketches that can be purchased exclusively at the MuseumsShop of Deutsche Guggenheim for € 1,500.
Admission
| Adults | | € 4 |
| reduced | | € 3 |
| Children under 12 | | Admission free |
| School classes | | Admission free |
| School classes with guided tours | | € 25 |
| Groups up to 20 | | € 35 |
| Family Card | | € 8 |
| Mondays | | Admission free |
Guided tours
Free Guided tours: Daily at 6 p.m.
Lunch Lectures: Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (Guided tours on selected themes followed by a small lunch)
Keynote Tours: Sundays at 11.30 a.m. (Guided tours on special themes followed by brunch)
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MuseumsShop
700 articles: catalogues, design articles, toys, etc.
MuseumsShop
Café
Drinks, brunch/snacks: varying menu.
Public transport to the exhibition
Subway Stadtmitte (U2) or Französische Straße (U6)
S-Bahn Unter den Linden (S1, S2) or Friedrichstraße (S3, S5, S7, S9, S75)
Bus No.100, 147, 200
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