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The German artist Wiebke Siem (*1954) causes our homely everyday life to be 鈥榠nvaded鈥� by fantastic and grotesque elements. Be that in the form of costumes which invite us to slip on another gender, or items of furniture that dangle their arms 鈥� Wiebke Siem creates a cosmos that is as funny as it is unfathomable, that renders the contradictions and inadequacies of our lifeworld visible with irony and wit. The artist鈥檚 works combine a feminist gaze with a critique of modernism鈥檚 problematic appropriation of non-European art. The sculptures conjure up numerous associations with art history, be it with the figures of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the Bauhaus stage, caricatures or surrealistic collages.

Siem鈥檚 Der Traum der Dinge (The dream of things) is an interactive installation that invites viewers to themselves become active: bowls, washing pegs, wooden spoons, rolling pins, clothes hangers, wig heads and other wooden objects can be combined to make up life-size figures. Irrespective of whether the body of such figures is made out of a scrubbing board, a dough trough or a large plywood can, what emerge are beings with very different characters.