Since the end of July, the British-Canadian artist Alex McNamee (1990) has been working on a site-specific installation that is going to change the Kunstverein's garden in the long term.

One could say that Alex McNamee's preferred material is landscapes. She quotes them, reinvents them or merges them with another. In her work, hills pile up in odd shapes. Puddles flicker on screens or emerge as real water surfaces in unexpected places. Stones and boulders indicate functionality but ultimately refuse to be assigned. The human interpretation of matter is a central concern of the artist. Which properties do objects require to in order to not be considered as neutral anymore?

For the garden of the Kunstverein, McNamee creates a site-specific installation that explicitly includes time as a tool to shape material. In this work the relationship we want to develop with the landscape and with matter is a central issue. How do we evaluate ourselves within a landscape that is constantly changing? These changes often take place through our own targeted intervention - yet always under the conditions of the matter itself.
Unlike a typical exhibition, the installation of the artist will not have a limited duration, which ends with the dismantling and removal of the works. McNamee’s work, created for the garden of the Kunstverein, remains on site after completion and will reshape over time due to weather, growth and our (nursing) interventions. The installation will continue making, rusting, crumbling, growing, producing, pushing pulling and warping.
The project will be realized by the artist from July 21st until the end of August. You are cordially invited to visit the Kunstverein during the work process and the festive opening.

The opening takes place on August, 26 from 5 'till 9 p.m. - so there will be plenty time to explore the installation, have chats, drinks and a snack while keeping the required distance to one another.

At 6 p.m. there will be a short welcoming speech as well as some introductory words on the exhibition of Pilippe Van Snick inside the Kunstverein's building and Alex McNamee's installation in the garden of the Kunstverein.

Furthermore we would like to cordially invite you to a on-site conversation with Alex McNamee on August 20th at 7 p.m.!