Pfelder’s artistic approach and work involves giving certain spaces or places an appropriate new use, conversion or use at all, redefining them. “We must be contemporary and spatial”, a quote from Franz Xaver Baier’s philosophical discourse “Der Raum”, in which lived space is related to concrete ways of life and propagated as the medium of a state, could be seen as the baseline for his work.
Photo: Pfelder – gold © Pfelder, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
In his situational interventions in the urban environment, he deals very specifically with urban and social structures. Questions of public space are taken up and the public itself is thematized. The integrative and communicative character of the works is important here.
Photo: Pfelder – gold © Pfelder, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
“gold” is a participatory spatial installation for the ZAK that invites visitors to lend a hand or foot and kick as part of an artistic work. Like in a sports hall, the gallery space becomes a place for athletic and intellectual exercise, regardless of whether pillars stand in the way or goals can only be scored from the sides. Flanked by site-specific perimeter advertising, the ZAK becomes the venue for multi-layered competitions in the field of tension between public funding and artistic precariousness.
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