Berlin New Exhibition | Metempsychosis: The Passion of Pneumatics

📍 Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany 🧑‍🎨 Ivana Bašić "Metempsychosis: The Passion of Pneumatics" spans two levels of the iconic octagonal hall at the Schinkel Pavillon, showcasing sculptures, videos, paintings, and a large-scale pneumatic centerpiece. The entire exhibition feels like a rite of passage, immersing the audience in a poetic and deeply nuanced world of artistic expression. 🎨 At the heart of the exhibition is a site-specific sculpture that occupies the seven-meter-wide ground-floor hall. Within this central piece, small pneumatic metal hammers gradually crush alabaster into powder between two large glass petals, blending it into the dust cloud that permeates the exhibition space. Driven by air pressure, the hammers' repetitive motion syncs with the artist's breathing rhythm, evoking the Gnostic understanding of the Greek term "Pneuma" (breath and spirit), symbolizing the breath of life and the transcendence of the material realm. 🌬️ In the ground-floor exhibition space, visitors can see more figurative sculptures in various states of transformation, as well as paintings shaped like wombs, nebulae, and cellular life, as if illustrating the birth process of the sculptures. Flesh-toned skin folds are encased in shiny bronze armor, protecting their delicate flesh. 🎭 Ivana Bašić, born in 1986 in Belgrade, Serbia, currently lives and works in New York. Her work is deeply influenced by her childhood experiences, encompassing themes of war, violence, and the physical struggles during the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Bašić explores a wide range of topics through her humanoid sculptures, including intergenerational trauma, post-humanist feminism, and the pursuit of immortality. 🌐 Each of Bašić's handcrafted sculptures embodies a beauty of contrasts—both tender and violent. Materials such as wax, glass, bronze, stainless steel, and alabaster are combined into human-sized forms, evoking associations with human skin, amniotic fluid, and insect bodies, all in states of transformation or dissolution. Her work creates a novel visual experience by blending these diverse materials, exploring the fragility and resilience of life. 🌟 Ivana Bašić invites viewers to contemplate the nature of life, the limitations of the body, and the infinite possibilities of the spirit through her art. If you have the chance, be sure to visit the Schinkel Pavillon and experience this soul-stirring exhibition in person. 🌈 #TodayIAmAViewer #ShinyArt #MustSeeExhibitions #AllAboutArt #ForArtLovers #ContemporaryArt #PublicArt #GermanExhibitions #ArtInstallations #Sculpture