Philipp Modersohn

In his multidisciplinary practice, Philipp Modersohn (born 1986 in Bremen, lives and works in Berlin) highlights the vibrancy of all terrestrial matter. In his animated films, various non-human, often inorganic actors appear, stones, shells, plastics, etc., which tell of their existence and of their view of things, not least in relation to the human influence on their respective habitats. In his sculptures, which are mainly made of sediments and other originally earthbound materials, Modersohn emphasises the beauty of the fragile, drawing on the decisive shaping forces on our planet: pressure and heat. The works oscillate between indoor and outdoor objects and often have an architectural and design reference. Moreover, in both his sculptures and his films, Modersohn often makes use of contemporary appropriation of Baroque motifs to question the future of art-making in the age of the late Anthropocene.