Wahrscheinlichkeitswolken

Immediately after Birgitta Weimer’s extensive solo exhibition
‚Daseinsformen’ at the Osthaus Museum Hagen, Galerie
Judith Andreae presents with ‘Wahrscheinlichkeitswolken’ the
first individual exhibition of the artist.
In addition to ‘Wahrscheinlichkeitswolken’ which was also
exhibited in the Osthaus Museum, Birgitta Weimer’s
exhibition shows new wall objects on mirrors, the
‘Hyperobject Studies’, as well as red-translucent objects,
titled ‘Spukhafte Fernwirkung’ after Albert Einstein’s
designation of the phenomenon of entangled particles. You
can also see filigree sculptures under glass domes,
‘Daseinsformen’ (2017) and ‘Clouds’ (2011), lacquer
drawings on various layers of tracing paper. Also shown are
the well-known ‘Messier objects’ (2012), which transform the
vaulted cellar of the Gallery into a sea of stars.

The ‘Hyperobject Studies’ – expansive wall sculptures with
structures made of black spheres reminiscent of clouds – take
center at the current exhibition. These cloud-like
conglomerates also find their essential presence by being
mounted on mirror surfaces, whereby a duplication of the
object and exhibition space are staged. „Objects in mirror are
closer than they appear. This slogan is engraved on every
right side mirror of every American car. The mirror itselfs has
become part of my flesh. Or rather, I have become part of the
mirror’s flesh, reflecting hyperobjects everywhere.“ (Timothy
Morton)
The viewer has a special role to play here: Depending on the
location and the viewing position, he or she can influence the
duplication of artwork and space - accidentally or consciously.
The relation between artwork and viewer develops a virtual
set of possibilities and subsequent probabilities.
With the probability as a unit of measurement for quantifying
the certainty or uncertainty of a random experiment as an
integral part of the artworks Birgitta Weimer creates the
intertwining of art and science.

„As visual analogies, Birgitta Weimer’s works are always
mixed beings, expressing hybrid mixtures beyond clear forms
of knowledge called ‘science’, ‘nature’, ‘technology’ or similar.
As objects they may be simply beautiful artworks, as beings
of fiction they convulse our habitual orders and surveying of
our world.“
(After Timo Skrandies)

In recent years Birgitta Weimer had a variety of museum and
gallery exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Among others at
the Osthaus Museum Hagen, LVR Landesmuseum Bonn,
Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Flint Museum of Arts, Michigan.
She is also represented in many high-profile collections
nationally and internationally, such as the Daimler Chrysler
Art Collection Berlin, Madison Dearborn Inc. Chicago USA,
Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Foundation Wilhelm
Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg and in the Osthaus Museum
Hagen.