Artist: Patrick Ostrowsky
Exhibition title: A Home
Venue: Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich, Germany
Date: September 9 – October 21, 2023
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
In the project space “Park” the gallery presents new works by Patrick Ostrowsky (*1991 Schwandorf, lives/works in Munich/Basel). Ostrowsky explores the transfer of structures of urban life and strategies of temporary architecture to sculpture. For “A Home” he shows a sculptural intervention that understands the exhibition space as a whole as material. Ostrowsky’s new group of works addresses issues of perception and representation, the notion of inside and outside, and references the domestic world and the concept of the homely. Found objects are balanced with ceramic objects and sculptures to create an intense atmosphere. Set pieces built in a DIY process from inhabited spaces that create their own architectural situations are combined with a series of “blind” plastic windows that have lost their function as an opening to the outside world and become strangely enraptured objects. In their series they function as a symbol for the process of image-making as a succession of aberrations and new beginnings, as an endless process of ‘searching’.
Patrick Ostrowsky, A Home, 2023, exhibition view, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
Patrick Ostrowsky, A Home, 2023, exhibition view, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
Patrick Ostrowsky, a home (beyond the matter of talking), 2023, wood, steel, glazed ceramics, perforated metal sheet, 260 x 120 x 217 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, a home (beyond the matter of talking), 2023, wood, steel, glazed ceramics, perforated metal sheet, 260 x 120 x 217 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, a home (beyond the matter of talking), 2023, wood, steel, glazed ceramics, perforated metal sheet, 260 x 120 x 217 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, A Home, 2023, exhibition view, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
Patrick Ostrowsky, A Home, 2023, exhibition view, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
Patrick Ostrowsky, a home (beyond the matter of talking), 2023, wood, steel, glazed ceramics, perforated metal sheet, 260 x 120 x 217 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, A Home, 2023, exhibition view, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich
Patrick Ostrowsky, clouds over monte veritá, 2023, glazed ceramics, water colour on paper, 25 x 31 x 8 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, CONFESSOR (a cabinet), 2023, glazed ceramics, perforated metal sheet, wood, 125 x 35 x 32 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, a window (night vision), 2023, epoxy resin, steel, 50 x 33 x 2 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, a home (beyond the matter of talking), 2023, wood, steel, glazed ceramics, perforated metal sheet, 260 x 120 x 217 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, a grid (wavey beaus), 2023, glazed ceramics, 47 x 45 x 5 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, a pot-pine, 2023, glazed ceramics, plaster, 25 x 35 x 30 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, candle holder V, 2022, glazed ceramics, 13 x 8 x 4 cm; plant II, 2023, glazed ceramics, 17 x 12 x 11 cm
Patrick Ostrowsky, candle holder V, 2022, glazed ceramics, 13 x 8 x 4 cm; plant II, 2023, glazed ceramics, 17 x 12 x 11 cm