Installation view: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
Bärenland (Land of Bears), Videoinstallation, 41:02 mins, 2024 - 2026
Bärenland is a video essay in four chapters, unfolding across the seasons spring, summer, autumn and winter while tracing a narrative from the final jelly dessert eaten on the Titanic to the consumer promises of postwar Germany. Connecting historical jelly desserts with contemporary gummybears, the sticky sweets emerge as a multilayered metaphor of economic rise, nationalism and human depression.
Alongside the film installation contains four sculptures "Beere" (Berry), "Deutsche Kastanie" (German Chestnut), "Der Riesenschlumpf" (The Giant Smurf), and "Bundesbüdchen".
Deutsche Kastanie (German Chestnut), 40 x 35 x 80 cm, Wood, Stain paint, Aluminum, Spray paint, 2026
Beere (Berry), 90 x 80 x 100 cm, Polystyrene, Acrylic Resin, Paraffin, Stainless Steel, Aluminum, 2026
Beere (detail)
Der Riesenschlumpf (The Giant Smurf), Stainless Steel, Casted Parraffin, 180 x 70 x 55 cm, 2024
Der Riesenschlumpf, Foto: Lea Hopp
Bundesbüdchen, 70 x 35 x 80 cm, Wood, Linoleum, Aluminum, Plastics, Spray Paint, Stainless Steel, LED Lights, 2026
Bundesbüdchen, (detail)
Still frames from Bärenland
