Simon Mullan Spacers 5.07.2021 – 28.08.2021 EN DE DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is pleased to announce our third solo show in Berlin of Simon Mullan, featuring a sculptural environment in the main gallery. Titled SPACERS, the exhibition consists of a construction of fifty-eight wall-mounted hand-carved stone crosses, specifically sized and spaced on the four walls of the room. The grids and the negative spaces they define are an enlarged representation of standard-issue bathroom tiles. The stone reliefs hover over a deep blue wall-to-wall carpet, a reference to a 90s industrial trade fair setting as a symbolic space of economic opportunity. Additional sculptural and video works in the show highlight the labor history of the artist’s current studio on the premises of the former Baustoffe Stolpe GmbH. The dilapidated former concrete plant in Stolpe in Brandenburg—the plans for its future envision a gradual transformation into a “culture park”—is a case in point, with construction materials and products handsomely crumbling under the elements: cast-concrete pipe elements, concrete slabs, heaps of gravel lie scattered across the premises right on the Hohensaaten Canal, which runs parallel to the Oder river. A website put up by the new owners solicits “makers & thinkers” who need a “workation in concrete” to become tenants, “take part in the development process,” and realize their “concrete utopia” (pun intended?) at the compound. essay EN DE SPACERS By DANIEL VöLZKE Deindustrialization has transformed sites of strenuous physical labor into décors: the service companies that moved into vacant industrial structures in West Germany starting in the 1970s and in East Germany starting in 1990 use the relics of a bygone era to deck out their craft brewery-cum-culture centers, dance factories, and colliery restaurants. Machines gather dust in the corners whose erstwhile purpose is a mystery to almost everyone, giant rust-covered cogwheels rest on the floor, and the instruments on massive valves of some kind are forever stuck at zero. And yet something is spooky: what has become of the people who used to work here? READ MORE Simon Mullan, Remnant, 2021, Full HD video, 26 min, 1/3 + 1 AP Simon Mullan, Spacers #06, 2021, Hand cut marble, Unique in series of 58, 27 x 27 x 3 cm videos publications Simon Mullan – Spacers €15 Add to Cart instagram facebook OPENING HOURS Mon-Sat: 11.00AM — 6.00PM CONTACT DETAILS Dittrich & Schlechtriem ConceptStore GmbH Linienstrasse 23, 10178 Berlin, Germany Phone +493024342462 info@dittrich-schlechtriem.com

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