Staging of the work “Shrink” by Lawrence Malstaf

12.10.2024 — 13.10.2024

Every weekend at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the staging of Lawrence Malstaf’s work Shrink 01995 takes place with different participants.

Saturdays: 4 and 5 pm

Sundays: 3.30 and 4.30 pm

Special date: 26 December 2024, 2.30, 3.30 and 14.30 pm

Each performance lasts 20 minutes.

Breath is the starting point for the work Shrink 01995 (1995–ongoing) by Lawrence Malstaf (b. 1972, Bruges, BE, lives and works in Tromsø, NO). Two large, transparent foils are stretched across a framed structure. A person is pressed into the space between them. Wrapped in this skin, he/she holds two tubes. One removes air, the other supplies air. One creates a vacuum so that the body floats in a compressed state, while the other enables breathing. A profound experience of space and physicality, isolation and limitation, as well as peace and protection opens up.

Over the summer, the Frankfurter Kunstverein launched an open call for people from different areas and backgrounds to be part of Malstaf’s work. The artist prepared the participants for the experience in several sessions.

With Farzad Bayan, Vanessa Bernhardt, Christiane Blumenberg, Felix Chang, Hannah Eisenried, Kim Elas, Serkan Goeren, Nelly Habelt, Annika Hofmann, Camie Klein, Annette Kühn, Monika Linhard, Pauline Michel, Laura van Meurs, Anna Noack, Lara Pigorsch, Yannick Pfeifer, Marco Ramaglia, Juan Urbina, Mareike Villnow, Katja Catharina Visschers and Lara-Marie Weine.