Rolando Anselmi is pleased to present Contiguous Space, Valerie Krause’s first solo
exhibition in the gallery space in Rome. As the title suggests, the German artist focuses on
the necessary relation between sculpture and space, creating a site specific environment
in which a contiguity of volumes, contents, materials and forms questions the hierarchical
value of space as a container and sculpture as content. Valerie Krause’s sculptures
should certainly be intended as space generators: the installation’s setup underlines the
correlation between a multitude of single sculptures and their ability to relate to what is
“other from themselves”. In this way, a continuum of visual interactions give birth to a new
space, able to state its own specificity. At the same time it’s through this space’s specificity
that a sculpture is allowed to live an unprecedented state, sprout by the resonance that
surrounds it. In this intricate dialogue between generality and singularity, the viewer’s
gaze is constantly called to question its position between the set and the fragments,
and between those fragments and the spawned space-continuum. Despite the clash
and contrast of highly diverse forms and materials, Valerie Krause creates a unity that
exudes an ephemeral atmosphere, invoking a further level of the sculpture’s physicality.
January 18, 2019 | 19h | opening reception
19.01 - 2019 | 01.03 - 2019 | by appointment
GALERIE | ROLANDO ANSELMI
BERLIN | Winsstrasse 72, 10405
tel. +49 (0) 3074073430
ROME | Via di tor Fiorenza 18-20, 00199
tel. +39 (0) 3383673451
www.rolandoanselmi.com
Valerie Krause (b. 1976, Herdecke, Germany), lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Recent solo shows
include: Galerie L21 (2017, Palma De Mallorca; 2015, Madrid), Kunst-Station Sankt Peter (2017, Köln),
Galerie Greta Meert (2016; 2013, Brusselles), Rolando Anselmi (2015; 2013, Berlin; 2014, Marseille), Shi
Fang (2015, Düsseldorf), Vitrine der Landesvertretung (2013, Berlin). Recent group shows include: Galerie
Greta Meert (2018, Brusselles), Galerie L21 (2016, Palma de Mallorca), Kunst im Tunnel (2016, Düsseldorf),
Verein Düsseldorf (2016, Palermo), Rolando Anselmi (2016, Rome; 2014, Berlin), Museum Kunstpalast
(2014, Düsseldorf), Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palermo (2013, Palermo), Skulpturenpark Köln (2013, Köln).