The work “Hinterstübchen” is a site-specific installation that was on display during the “Open Days” at the Künstlerhaus Bremen. For this, we pulled an artificial rock wall through the entire length of a studio. When the door is opened, the viewer stands in front of an unmanageable rock massif. At the end of it, he discovers an old wooden window set into the “rock”, which allows a view into an illuminated room behind it. This is designed like a collage with a wide variety of wallpapers.

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“The visitor enters the studio and encounters monumental nature. The mountain backdrop presses in on the viewer, leaving hardly any space for movement, no distance for the panoramic view. The clear cracks in the collage demonstrate the fragmented nature of the work; there is no attempt to create illusion and unity.

The window reverses inside and outside. It is not the view from the window onto a mountain backdrop that is reproduced as usual, but the interweaving of inside and outside, the view from the window itself becomes the subject of contemplation.

Patricia Lambertus has invited two artists, Marina Steinacker and Susanne Katharina Willand, into her studio to add a further space to her own theme. While Patricia Lambertus deals with houses, streets and the city, i.e. architecture and urbanity in the broadest sense, the works of her colleagues revolve around the theme of “nature”. What all three have in common is an understanding of architecture and nature as a fragile, illusion-laden construction. In both positions, domestic living environment here, natural space there, the invented and the found, the made and the planned are revealed. Behind the fiction of unity, the fragmented surface leads to the thematic core.”  Dr. Rainer Beßling