Sabine Kuehnle: Stories from the North

Smart, raw, clear and sometimes tough

"Axe time, sword time, split shields, wind time, wolf time, until the world comes to an end ..." The whispering vision of the seer in the Norse song of the "Edda" is about a powerful, above all eloquent world of legends. Sabine Kuehnle depicts it in an expansive installation, leading us to the ash tree Yggdrasill, which represents the entire cosmos in Norse mythology. Its crown connects heaven and earth, its roots reach deep down to a spring where three maiden figures live. They determine our fate, their names are: that which has become, that which is becoming and that which is to come. Sabine Kuehnle allows them to take effect so that they can combine with other impressions, figures, images and stories, opening up new narratives and spaces. The path to this sometimes resembles precise scientific research and then again takes place purely associatively. The separation between concentrated search and free drifting is cancelled, the conscious and the unconscious should flow into one another. Combining and processing materials, textures and space in such a way that they appear like a poem: like a condensed thought, clever, raw, clear and sometimes harsh - this is what makes Sabine Kuehnle's work so special.