Kalin Lindena

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Especially for Reutlingen Kalin Lindena (born 1977), appointed professor at the Karlsruhe Academy just recently, has created a choreographic course which turns the Kunstverein into the scene of an abundant installation: she provides it with semi-transparent curtains which transform 500 sqm of the bright and cantilever hall into a colour-glittering stage. 0The vantage point for this is Hans Jantzen’s term of the translucent or “diaphane structure” which he formed surveying ecclesiastical glass-windows in order to demonstrate that the colourful translucence, inherent in the gothic stained glass windows or in Lindena’s very fabrics, unifies within itself interior and exterior space, the near and the far, art and life, even the mundane and the celestial as a necessarily associated and reciprocally elucidated “continuum”. 0Thus, the exhibition space really turns it into a place of appearance: not only for Lindena’s abstract steel-sculptures, wielded with a delicately graphical gesture and playfully dispersed throughout the space, but most notably for us. As soon as we enter the exhibition hall we are amidst her “Statisten”, her “Extras” as she calls these sculptures, which immediately prompt us to abandon the “static” position of a beholder and become protagonists ourselves upon the stage of the given space. 0In their alleged statics, Lindena’s figures extend beyond themselves, transgress into our sphere of being, and invite us to explore the space of possibilities her exhibition creates on our own paths and to attain our particular places amidst it. 0 0Exhibition: Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany (07.12.2014-01.02.2015)