Felix Kultau

occultau

Pure Pop-Nostalgie

Felix Kultau’s (b. Hanau, 1984; lives and works in Berlin) sculptures are physical as well as emotional and nostalgic collages, tapping not only into a repertoire of materials and signifiers, but also into the multifaceted experiences and memories bound up with them. Kultau typically works with raw industrial and found materials such as concrete, fiberboard, fluorescent tubes, or brass, which rarely lose their air of objet trouvé even as he manipulates them.
As a member of a younger generation, Kultau proffers a kind of nostalgia that must be read in light of pop-cultural influences. More particularly, he avails himself of the American pop culture that hit TV screens in the mid-to-late 1990s and exerted a subtle yet lasting influence over Western European consumer choices. Many of his works combine a playful awareness of their own objecthood and its association with the commodity fetish with haunting gestures toward the darker sides of our affluence in a comfortable world made by media.

The catalogue is released on occasion of the exhibition occultau at Kunstverein zu Assenheim, Schloss Assenheim, Niddatal, Hesse, and surveys Felix Kultau’s output between 2017 and 2021 with a look back at earlier exhibitions. With an essay by Hendrike Nagel and a short story by Leif Randt.