The shared Oasis of the Gift Shop

Schmela Haus / K20/21, Düsseldorf
30. January - 05. February 2015
curated by Doris Krystof

Matthias Wollgast, graduate of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, completed a two year post graduate programme at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in the autumn of 2014 with the installation "The shared Oasis of the Gift Shop’’. The staging of a shop window includes books, posters, cameraless photographs and a series of self-produced postcards, exhibited behind a glass case as a wall object. Wollgast produces images in the darkroom from hand made negatives that evoke revenants of modernity within a shop display realized in collaboration with exhibition designer Edi Winarni.