Sterile spaces, white walls, black doors, no people. A fluid in shiny black swashes in, slowly spreads out on the floor, swallows the white and forms into a sculptural shape. Space-grasping substances, alien, inspirited, puzzling and eerie.
Using magnets, Bernd Oppl and Bogomir Doringer form sculptural entities from iron-containing ferrofluid in miniaturised three-dimensional displays. Bodies created in analogue that – both eerie and weirdly funny – irritate our familiar perception of space.
Bernd Oppl lives and works in Vienna. Selected solo exhibitions include Intermission, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (2016); Keep it all Inside, Kunstraum Goethestrasse, Linz (2015); Inhabited Interioirs, Georgia Museum of Arts, USA; Drehmoment, RLB Atelier, Linz;Passages, Amstel 41, Amsterdam (2014); Raumflucht, artpartments, Vienna (2013);Constants are Changing, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck (2012); and Point of View, Kunstverein das weisse haus, Vienna (2009).
Address: 11/198 Adelaide Street, ANZAC Square Arcade, Brisbane, Australia 4000.
Open: Friday 10am – 2pm, Saturday 10am -12pm (During Exhibitions)
Image: Bernd Oppl (2017) Substanzaufnahme, Black and white, 8 min. silent (Video Still).
