The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart opened its »Frischzelle« series of exhibitions with Jörg Obergfell: three times a year the same versatile space is to become an area of experimentation, a challenge for budding artists. Jörg Obergfell, born 1976 (St. Georgen, Black Forest), transformed the space into an underwater world using a single giant salamander, into the vaults of heaven using a black star. His sculptures, part painted, carved from lime wood, are inspired by a variety of sources: everyday items, aspects of sub-culture, and forms and motifs drawn from art history are blended and consciously given the same status through the choice of format: why should a leaf be smaller than a sky scraper? to catalogue
	The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart continues its »Frischzelle« series with the female artist Alex Müller, born 1971 in Düren. For the second time a predefined area of the museum becomes an experimental arena for young art. Alex Müller combines painting and sculpture in a space-encompassing installation; pictorial elements, wall drawings, and adapted finds transform the »Frischzelle« into an eccentric world full of treasures and adventure. to catalogue
	The third young artist to feature in the Frischzelle room was Pia Maria Martin. The artist, who currently lives in Stuttgart was born in 1974 in Altdorf, near Nuremberg. Martin works with the medium of film. She plays with our perceptions of the seemingly insignificant objects and mundane processes of daily life. In an untidy room, for example, objects spring into life and rearrange themselves, two fish prepare themselves for supper and a dismembered chicken pieces itself back together. In her animated films, Martin portrays the processes of growth, decay and constant metamorphosis, using simple but striking images. We would like to thank the accounting and consulting firm KPMG for their support of this project. to catalogue
	Albrecht Schäfer explores architecture, city, and space in his works. The Berlin artist thus produced the minimalist video »Freier Fall« for the fourth presentation in the »Frischzelle« series. It tells the story of a falling sheet of paper that sails through the over eight-meter-high exhibition space. The flight of the sheet makes visible the conditions of time and space as well as the emptiness and volume of the exhibition space. For his newspaper decollages, the artist cuts blocks of text out of news sheets until only small monochrome squares, individual words, or alphabetic characters remain on the margins of the paper. The once densely printed newspaper pages are transformed into dadaist sound poems and architectonic ground plans. This project was made possible by the sponsorship of the accounting and consulting firm KPMG. to catalogue
	In her video works and installations, the artist Susanne Kutter repeatedly deals with the notion of ›home sweet home‹ which she sets into turmoil through striking interventions. In her best-known video »Flooded Home« (2003), the currently 35-year-old Berlin resident arranged an entire living room in a swimming pool: water gradually flows in and cupboards, armchairs, and tables slowly rise up and swim around the pool. Suddenly wreaking havoc and destroying the system of order by an absurd act are characteristic of Susanne Kutter's works. For the fifth presentation in the exhibition series »"Frischzelle« in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Susanne Kutter shatters a chandelier: »Herrn Orleanders großer Auftritt« is a magnificent crash. This project was made possible by the sponsorship of the accounting and consulting firm KPMG. to catalogue
	When do the inkspots begin to take on meaning? How is reality reconstructed as memory? The Berlin artist Alexander Schellow uses Indian ink and fiber pencil drawings to compile recollective protocols dot by dot. In the series »collection«, he captures the faces of briefly glimpsed passers-by, allowing time to create some distance from the moment. His work »3 seconds« explores the gaps in our perception through a sequence of drawings of a group of pigeons. The sixth presentation in the exhibition series »Frischzelle« also presented Schellow’s short film series »spots«. In three seconds of animation, he attempts to discover the moment in which our imagination begins to create a story. We would like to thank the accounting and consulting firm KPMG for their support of this project. to catalogue
	Pablo Wendel’s projects are as subtle as they are radical. With him, a fish learns how to fly after getting itself hooked on a specially constructed ›balloon fishing rod‹; a cactus freezes artificially from inside out and frosts over from the breath of observers; a chair-lift glides apparently along a high-voltage power line toward the setting sun, seemingly not sustaining any damage. With his intervention »Terracotta Warrior« at a Xi’an museum, the now 26-year-old artist drew great attention in 2006 and not only in China. The many works he created specifically for the series »Frischzelle_07« are likewise marked by a link between life and art. The project is sponsored by the accounting and consulting firm KPMG. to catalogue
	Gereon Krebber (b. 1973) belongs to the young generation of German artists dedicated to the again increasingly esteemed field of Plastik, the German term for sculpture as well as for plastic materials. And Plastik is literally Krebber's field of activity. Made of materials such as gelatin and balloon clusters, synthetic mats, icing, and similar substances enveloped with plastic wrap, his sculptural creations flow through space in large gestures. They act both in and with the architecture of the exhibition spaces and thereby take on something distinctly bodily and alive. Since Krebber always works in relation to space and often produces works that exist only temporarily, his artistic position for the »Frischzelle« with its specific location on the large staircase in the basement of the museum appears particularly promising. We would like to thank the accounting and consulting firm KPMG for their support of this project. to catalogue
	A glacier tongue extends through the empty exhibition rooms. A sculpture made of transparent foil spreads out over the ceiling and floor of the parking deck. Suddenly a huge safe containing enormous gold bars opens in front of us - or are they only bales of straw in a freight elevator? The ninth female artist in the exhibition series Frischzelle, Luka Fineisen, invites visitors into a world of surprising natural phenomena, which strangely irritate and fascinate the viewer at the same time. The artist, who lives in Cologne, was awarded the Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis for her conceptual art in 2007. The 34-year-old sculptor will be creating works especially for the exhibition rooms, so we have every reason to be excited about her transformation of the Kunstmuseum. We would like to thank the accounting and consulting firm KPMG for their support of this project. to catalogue
	Kunstmuseum Stuttgart's programme of exhibitions would not be complete without showcasing young artists. Three times a year, one of our rooms is transformed into a provocative and challenging experimental arena. The varying heights of the walls and the staircase joining the two storeys make for an unusual and varied setting. An assortment of artistic attitudes and art forms - paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, video art and photographs - utterly alter the room's aspect every time. For »Frischzelle_10«, Stefan Burger transformed the museum space into a kind of stage setting. He covered two walls with photo wallpaper murals and combined open architectural structures with attached fixtures and a homogonous, space-filling picture field as a single panorama. We would like to thank the accounting and consulting firm KPMG for their support of this project. to catalogue
	Whether Istanbul, Belgrade, or Stuttgart—it is places and their inhabitants that become the starting point for Nasan Tur’s interventions. For the eleventh »Frischzelle« in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart the 35-year old collected over four hundred graffiti slogans found on house entrances and walls of the state capital of Baden Württemberg to subsequently present them in the museum as an abstract wall picture that can no longer be deciphered. The German artist with Turkish background gives a voice to those who have none in official media discourse and, with subversive actions, causes irritation in public spaces: gold sculptures distributed in downtown Stuttgart, for example, wait to be taken home and a vending machine in the Kunstmuseum provides the basic equipment necessary for a successful demonstration. We would like to thank the accounting and consulting firm KPMG for their support of this project. to catalogue
	Before Katinka Bock starts with an artwork, she sets out in search of traces. The history and constitution of the locations for which her sculptures, films and installations are created play an essential role in her work. The artist, who lives in Paris, especially tries to create new ways of seeing our immediate environment by making temporal structures and spatial and dimensional relationships visible. She reveals their hidden structures with the help of natural materials, including clay, paper, wood, metal, and rock. Based on the interrelationships between location, object and beholder as well as interior and exterior, change and stability, naturalness and artificiality, the 33-year-old creates complex, visual conceptions. Katinka Bock is the twelfth artist who transforms the space of the »Frischzelle«, an exhibition format for young artists at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, once again in a new, unique way. We would like to thank the accounting and consulting firm KPMG for their support of this project. to catalogue