Image 1-2: Anna Uddenberg & Thyago Sainte, FAKE-ESTATE, Film Still, 2023. Courtesy of the artists.
Image 3-4: Anna Uddenberg, FAKE-ESTATE, Installation view, 2022. Photo by Anne de Vries, courtesy of the artist.
15. September 2022 – 22. January 2023
In “FAKE-ESTATE”, Uddenberg’s most extensive solo exhibition in Berlin to date, the artist presents a site-specific installation ‘used’ for an ongoing durational live performance.
Focusing on the ‘furnituresque’ parts of her sculptural practice, quasi-functional objects become activated through performance. The introduction of performers to ‘use’ or be ‘used’ by objects, extends the artist’s long-running fascination with functionality as a mode of control. Much like in a BDSM contractual agreement, the body is willfully supported, entrapped, pampered and ultimately rendered useless, all while on view for the general public’s consumption in a ‘public disgrace’. Stuck in a feedback loop, the ‘Self’ resolves.
Uddenberg’s latest body of work explores themes of submission and domination in relation to the changing cityscape as Uddenberg directly responds to the immediate surroundings of the Schinkel Pavillon; the various encircling real-estate development and luxury housing projects, most uninhabited pieces of investment property. Uddenberg translates symbolic values of real-estate: textures, ‘skins’, rattan, veneer and other aesthetic components from their design into the new sculptural works' surfaces. The sculptures produced through a process of 3D printing in this way become “fake” of their own materiality.
Uddenberg has until now largely been known for her sculptural practice, which explores the merging of the body and the ‘Self’ with technology on a behavioural plane. “FAKE-ESTATE,” extends her ongoing research into the ways in which ‘user-friendly’ technology, interface and industrial design create pathways for our behaviour and navigation of the physical and digital realms. The images that come out of our feeds become bits and pieces of a simulated hyperreality which Uddenberg’s works materialize.
Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds (HKF) and Kraupa Tuskany-Ziedler Berlin.
Anna Uddenberg: FAKE-ESTATE
Sept. 15, 2022 – Jan. 22, 2023
Schinkel Pavillon
Oberwallstr. 32, 10117 Berlin