ANNA VIEBROCK: HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE

The art of the internationally renowned stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock is mainly at home in the theatre. Now she is creating an installation at the Skulpturenhalle, in which parts of a stage set and her models play a central role.

Since studying at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts in the 1970s, Anna Viebrock has developed her own distinctive way of intertwining space, architecture and sculpture, for which she has received much acclaim in the world of the theatre. Now, for the first time, her approach can be appreciated in a solo art exhibition.

Viebrock’s unmistakable stage sets are spatial collages whose naturalism is deceptive.

Through shifts in proportions, unusual combinations of architectural elements and “found” objects that tell their own stories, her hybrid spatial inventions unfold a great power.

The installation in the sculpture hall was developed from the stage set for GIUDITTA, an opera that was staged in Munich in 2021 under the direction of Christoph Marthaler.