Dialogfeld 1

Ulrike Mohr was born in Germany in 1970 and lives and works in Berlin.

She studied fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and the Academy of Fine Arts Trondheim, Norway.

She regularly exhibits in international solo and group exhibitions and realizes various works in public space. Ulrike Mohr has received the Elsa Neumann Scholarship from the State of Berlin, the Mart Stam Prize and numerous scholarships such as the Istanbul Scholarship from the Berlin Senate and the Art Fund Foundation.

Ulrike Mohr's artistic approach utilizes transformation processes of materials, which in turn are influenced by complex research results, traditional knowledge, but also by chance. Based on observations of nature, her works have their own material presence, which the artist transfers into artificial spaces, such as public spaces or exhibition spaces. Her position as a sculptor is the result of a process-oriented approach to context-related materials, which she transforms into poetic installations, interventions and spatial drawings. She is interested in the visualization of relationships between aesthetics and science - present and past.

Until the eruption of a volcano 291 million years ago, Chemnitz was a tropical oasis. Now a petrified forest is hidden beneath the Sonnenberg. The experimental research excavation brings light into the darkness of Chemnitz's cultural layer and uncovers nocturnal plants that grow on the Sonnenberg with the help of sunlight. Their flowers glow in the dark, exude a special scent at night and attract moths.

Johannes Specks and Marie Donike are intensely involved with food, enjoy preparing it, experimenting with flavors, preserving, making jam and love to cook and bake for nice people and eat with them. In addition to cooking, Johannes studied art at the HfBK Dresden and is now a master student of Martin Honert. Marie studied art history in Dresden and Vienna as well as baking. Because they love art and food so much, the best thing for them is when they can combine the two. This works more and more often.

They both usually work site-specifically. They design the food for the space. This means that there was pizza for the annual exhibitions at the art academy, which they prepared on a marble slab standing around and baked in the stone oven, which Johannes built from old bricks on old sandstone blocks that had been left lying around. Last year, Johannes and Marie grilled spring vegetables in the herb and vegetable garden of the Festspielhaus Hellerau as part of an art festival. Last year, they were (perhaps) the first people with a culinary scholarship to be invited to the Uckermark by the Libken Thinking and Production Space, which was fantastic.

They are currently exhibiting an installation at Galerie Ursula Walter, which visitors were able to play with themselves at the opening by toasting toast and adding chutney/cheese/butter/pickled root vegetables/orange marmalade. The screen-printed toast with chutney, cheese and pickled root vegetables hangs above the table where all this happened. In an art context, a culinary work always has the potential to be accessible and not too complex for most people, they can usually find themselves in it in some way. Food evokes emotions, it smells, it makes sounds, it tastes, it brings people together.

We are delighted to be part of Dialogfelder and to be able to realize a work for the night here on the Sonnenberg in Chemnitz. The location is a special place with a special character, they already have an idea.

Kiosk, Späti, stand-up cafe, drinking hall, little shop: a place where people meet. Different people who otherwise often have nothing to do with each other. Because in the kiosk they all get what they are looking for: Drinks and things they need immediately, such as tobacco, sweets and other food. Even at night, when people are out and about on the Sonnenberg.