Installation

Hartmannfabrik, Chemnitz

10.01 - 19.12.2025

The start of the European Capital of Culture year Chemnitz 2025 marks the beginning of a new project by Chemnitz investor Udo Pfeifer and his family. The owner of the Hartmannfabrik and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz developed a temporary exhibition project in the outdoor area of the Hartmannfabrik. Selected artists of international renown were invited to develop sculptures and artworks on the grounds and in the gardens of the Hartmannfabrik.

For the small district heating station in the garden at the Hartmannfabrik, the artist Tatjana Doll has conceived a three-sided wall design in the outdoor space. In it, she collages her own paintings from various series of works, which incorporate both art-historical references (such as Otto Dix, Henri Rousseau and Georg Baselitz) and pop-cultural quotes (Simpsons, Star Wars). War, threat, danger, unrest, but also resistance and humor come together here and seem like an echo of current conflicts. All motifs are advertising poster prints of originals, which she realizes in a direct, fast and sometimes raw painting style in large-format lacquer and oil paintings. When working with lacquer paints, imperfections such as shiny surfaces, cracks, color streaks and deformations are staged as part of the painterly process. Painting is never as perfect as the serial industrial products of our thoroughly capitalized culture.

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Photo: Mark Frost © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025