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Die Neue Bauordnung (The New Building Code)

Sandstone and chipboard (40 x 40 x 75 cm), text, 2025
The sandstone sculpture was placed as a foreign body next to other boulders at the side entrance of the Klosterruine, a former monastery in Berlin. As a test piece, it served to practice manual skills. The shape was not planned in advance, but resulted from the structure of the stone itself during chiseling. It is just as finished or unfinished as a ruin. Wind and weather can change the porous material. Any attempt to preserve the sculpture in a certain state seems futile if one thinks within geological time dimensions.
The work includes a text that applies the language and terms from construction law and the real estate industry to humans. Humans are no longer seen as individuals, but only as cases for the administration, as objects or contractual partners.
Detail of the sandstone sculpture: Rough surfaces and rounded elements. Photo: Alin Daghestani
§ 1: Der Körper ist ein Tempel.
§ 2: Der Geist ist eine Baustelle.
§ 3: Die Seele ist eine Ruine.
Photo in frog's eye view: The sandstone sculpture is rough and only the upper third has been chiseled. It consists of rounded and smooth elements. In the background is part of the monastery ruins. Photo: Jürgen Scheer
Panoramic view of the sandstone sculpture in a row with other larger dark boulders. In the background are parts of the monastery ruins.