mens_ in corpore_

In a joint project, Daniel Schörnig (room lighting) and Bertram Haude (parquet flooring) dedicated themselves to the gallery space of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. After the old gallery was closed and the renovation work began, this space was opened up again and thematized. The parquet of the gallery floor was removed by Bertram Haude, all connecting pieces were removed and the individual parts were put back into their previous order.

The gallery space is both the spatial and intellectual heart of the academy. The classicist design of the building refers to its origins: the ancient temple building (see Fig. 6). Within this appearance, this room is located in the most sacred place. As a designed space, it always affects us with its spirit. This spirit is the one that has had and continues to have a formative influence on it. It was precisely this problem that the two artists explored during the renovation phase of the room. The question of the architectural, artistic and idealistic practice that took place in it, and which was resumed after the renovation, briefly came to the fore.