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Folke Köbberling, Martin Kaltwasser and Christian Maier, Berlin

www.folkekoebberling.de

Luc Deleu / T.O.P. Office

Bernd Kniess & Leonhard Lagos

Köbberling, Kaltwasser & Maier

Lederer+Ragnarsdóttir+Oei

Tobias Lehmann & Floris Schiferli

Map Office

N55

Petetin and Grégoire

Marjetica Portrc and Srdjan Weiss

Bas Princen

Recto

Rural Studio

Stalker / Osservatorio Nomade

studio.eu and Stalker

Timorous Beasties

Toh Shimazaki Architecture

Sissel Tolaas

Folke Köbberling (*1969) is an artist based in Berlin. She studied Fine Art at the Universität der bildenden Künste, Kassel and the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver/Canada.
Martin Kaltwasser (*1965) based in Berlin. Artist and architect. He studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin. In 1993 Kaltwasser founded the Winterakademie. He is currently curating the exhibiton Industriestadtfuturismus (a project of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes).
Christian Maier (*1969) based in Berlin. Sculptor. Christian Maier studied at the School of Art in Braunschweig. He works now on installations and sculptors.

Köbberling, Kaltwasser and Maier are concerned with temporary and semi-legal installations in public spaces, frequently working with recycled and found materials. They concentrate on urban development and a fundamental critique of economic globalization and the development of social alternatives.

The installation “Steiger” is made up of found materials: Square timber beams, packaging materials and cut birch trees from the colliery, discarded furniture and doors from a demolished house in Essen. Köbberling, Kaltwasser and Maier spent a long weekend scrounging in a 2km radius around the colliery looking for materials that would reflect the material language of the Zollverein’s surroundings. “Our planning starts with the materials, not before.”

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