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Trockenbau III
Trockenbau III is an installation made by Alvar Bohrmann — contemporary german artist. The work operates in a field of tension between material and symbol.
Towels — soft, warm, domestic, intimate — are combined with the architectural form of columns, a structure historically tied to ratio, order, authority, and representation. The column is a figure of permanence and power; the towel is a figure of care, fragility, and everyday use. Their combination produces a controlled contradiction. The question is not aesthetic harmony, but structural absurdity: how can something designed to absorb, to protect bodies, to belong to private space, perform the visual role of a monumental support system? Stability becomes performative rather than real.
Towels — soft, warm, domestic, intimate — are combined with the architectural form of columns, a structure historically tied to ratio, order, authority, and representation. The column is a figure of permanence and power; the towel is a figure of care, fragility, and everyday use. Their combination produces a controlled contradiction. The question is not aesthetic harmony, but structural absurdity: how can something designed to absorb, to protect bodies, to belong to private space, perform the visual role of a monumental support system? Stability becomes performative rather than real.
The project was presented within a group exhibition format based on open calls and fixed thematic keywords. Artists were selected through submitted concepts or existing works. The exhibition carried the title WATER, which framed the conceptual field and determined the logic of selection. Within this context, the work Trockenbau III was proposed as a continuation of an earlier spatial installation first shown at Radar, a collaboration between Westfälischer Kunstverein and the Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster.
In its original version, the columns exceeded five meters in height. For the exhibition at Galerie Gruppe Motto, their proportions were recalibrated: reduced in height, slimmed in form, but preserving the same internal ratio between width and vertical scale. The work adapts to space without losing its internal logic.
Material, scale, theme, and context operate together as a system of pressure rather than a narrative.
In its original version, the columns exceeded five meters in height. For the exhibition at Galerie Gruppe Motto, their proportions were recalibrated: reduced in height, slimmed in form, but preserving the same internal ratio between width and vertical scale. The work adapts to space without losing its internal logic.
Material, scale, theme, and context operate together as a system of pressure rather than a narrative.
View of the Water exhibition, Galerie Gruppe Motto, 2025. Photo: Esteban Pérez
View of the Water exhibition, Galerie Gruppe Motto, 2025. Photo: Esteban Pérez
View of the Water exhibition, Galerie Gruppe Motto, 2025. Photo: Esteban Pérez
1-3 View of the Water exhibition, Galerie Gruppe Motto, 2025. Photo: Esteban Pérez
