Catrin Huber

Screaming / Dreaming
Antikensammlung | Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Restaging Ancient Spaces

In works that are often site-specific, Catrin Huber (b. Lörrach, 1968; lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne) engages with architecture, spaces of fiction, and the imagination. In her most recent project, Huber reenvisions the collection of antiquities at Kunsthalle Kiel, staging collisions between works of contemporary art, ancient statues, women from Greek tragedy and the present, and the collection’s architecture.

What is the source of antiquity’s charm? What makes it relevant today? And how can a museum of antiquities frame a contemporary perspective on antiquity? The exhibition and the accompanying publication draw on a wide variety of creative techniques—murals, textile works, collages, installation and sound art, and film—to explore these questions. Creating rooms that blend real with fictional architecture, the tangible with the imaginary, Huber undertakes a probing interrogation of the interrelations between wall, space, and beholder and prompts reflections on ancient and contemporary principles of interior decoration and conceptions of architecture.

With contributions by the artist as well as Annette Haug and Benjamin Engels.