Art installation

Ludwig Dunkel uses a large variety of artistic means to process motifs and ideas relating to the memory of historical events. In many of his works, this refers to the history of the Holocaust. Dunkel uses everyday and utilitarian objects, which he reassembles, reworks and alienates for his sculptures. He works with colour, writing, photography and film.

His method mobilises the history inherent in every object. The objects become resistant objects and images and point beyond their own ordinariness. He places them in the tense relationship between scenic narrative on the one hand and the abstraction of an autonomous work of art on the other.

Ludwig Dunkel, born 1961 in Neuss, visual artist, lives in Cologne.