Fallen shadows 2026, exhibition Kunsthalle Brennabor, May 30 to July 5, 2026 with the FMB women artists‘ network.
Kunsthalle Brennabor, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 12, 14776 Brandenburg an der Havel
This work was created as part of the project Shadow Phenomena. It is designed as a modular piece and comprises 4 objects, of which I am showing two here.
The background of this work cycle is research and reflections on the „Long Shadows of History.“ The current reality and the past are the constituents, the starting point in this context.
In Shadow Phenomena I materialize shadows of unknown origin into the material steel. In doing so, I work on geometric basic shapes with heat. The steel deforms, and at the same time a drawing emerges: Shaping and drawing steel with heat.
So far, there exist Running Shadows, Rolling Shadows, Wandering Shadows, Fleeting Shadows.
For decades, Margret Holz has dedicated her diverse work to the impact of time on history, on the memory of historical and fictional places and, in a very haptic way, as an impact on the sculptural material.
With the sculpture “Shadow phenomena,” the sculptor shows three large metal disks that have amorphous, shadow-like, intersecting shapes. What we see here is the slow and concentrated penetration of heat through fire into the material steel, through the controlled and precise processing of the sculptor. The previously uniform panes deform under the power of heat and the color nuances of the shadows testify to the formative and also destructive, archaic power of fire. In Margret Holz’s minimalist sculptures, sculptural action materializes, which can be read both as a brand and as a metaphor of burned-in time for the unrepresentable shadows of history. Veronika Witte, Berlin
Photo: Mabois, copyright: VG Bild-Kunst
Shadow phenomena 05, Wandering shadows 2026, steel burned, wall dreawing, mp3-player.
120 x 220 x 30 cm
Exhibition ON HER WAY 2026, Projectspace Kunstquartier Bethanien with FMB,
Frauenmuseum Berlin. Photo: Judith Brunner
Shadow phenomena 04, 2026, steel burned, 250 x 125 x 150 cm
Exhibition After nature 01, basement, Berlin. Curator: Oliver Möst
Photo: Mabois
Shadow phenomena 03, 2025, steel burned, 180 x 120 x 30 cm
Exhibition "weitergehend" at Kommunale Galerie Berlin with
artists from FMB, Frauenmuseum Berlin.
Photo: Bonnie Woods
Shadow phenomena 02, Fleeting shadows 2023, steel burned, 350 x 120 x 200 cm,
Sculpture studio bbk berlin.
Photo: Mabois
Shadow phenomena 01, Running shadows 2020, steel burned, polished
115 x 120 x 35 cm. Photo: Mabois