28.03.2025 –
09.06.2025
POMONA ZIPSER – Paradoxes of Сonstruction
About the Exhibition
Pomona Zipser predominantly conceives her works as assemblages and collages – meticulously composed constructions of wood, rope, metal, or paper, which, at times adorned with color, seem to defy the laws of gravity. Standing on delicate feet or set into motion by manual intervention, thereby altering their form, they function both as abstract compositions and as projection surfaces for possible figurative associations. In the wall-mounted works, one might discern landscapes or mapping systems; in the standing wooden sculptures, the silhouette of a creature bending downward.
These three-dimensional works are not carved from a given material but are instead conceived and assembled from recycled wood, uniting individual elements in recognition of their inherent material properties.
“Every material already carries its own forms. These are not pristine, technical pieces. They have indentations, openings, cracks; they are thick or thin, embedded with nails or screws. These things inspire me and provide direction. It is a process of both discovery and creation – a dynamic that is at once passive and active,”
the artist explains.
Yet, despite the often confrontational juxtaposition of wooden elements, the working process brings about a decisive transformation: precisely contoured transitions at the connection points allow the individual components to coalesce, as if merging into one another.
Ultimately, the resulting composition – a sensitively constructed tectonic structure – resolves both the potential contradictions of statics, gravity, and stability within the sculpture and the interplay of symbolism, metaphor, and figurative evocation.
Pomona Zipser – Biography
Pomona Zipser was born in Romania in 1958 and moved to Germany in 1970. From 1979 to 1983, she studied painting under Mac Zimmermann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and then sculpture under Lothar Fischer at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she was a master student. Pomona Zipser has been honoured for her work with numerous prizes and scholarships – in 1979 with the Jean Walter Prize and a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, in 1986 with a scholarship for Venice, in 1988 with a working scholarship from the Berlin Senate and the Marianne Werefkin Prize, in 1991 with the Barkenhoffstipendium, and in 2018 with a residency in Chretzeturm (CH). Last year, she was an artist in residence at Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue in Jingdezhen (China).
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