“The sculptor Christiane Löhr (* 1965) surprises us with a peculiar courage to go small. Instead of grand gestures and expansive installations, her meticulously constructed, miniature sculptures, made from wild, dried grasses, burrs or seeds, sometimes measure only a few centimetres. Consistently, the artist relies on renewable materials, which she sifts, harvests and orders before she begins the work process through reflecting on statics, colour and form. The results are fragile, almost translucent constructs, but also compact shapes that, through the intricate precision of their many elements, put on display the smallest geometrical orders nature has to offer. On that basis Löhr has developed a highly independent position in international contemporary art. …”
Christiane Löhr, Big Seed Cloud, 2021, thistle seeds, hair net, Installation view Christiane Löhr – Organising the Wild, Haus am Waldsee, 2021, Photo: Roman März
