René Block, Björn Dahlem, Maria Eichhorn, Heiner Franzen, Asta Gröting, Adrian Lohmüller, Michaela Melián, Michael Sailstorfer, Hans Schabus, Klaus Staeck, Nasan Tur, Johannes Vogl, Anna Witt

In Familienwerkbänke (family work benches), Asta Gröting’s first solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer, the artist stages the working tables of fourteen artists’ parents. These fourteen work benches open up the idea of the family as well as that of the work between its past and its present as spaces of diverse engagements. Gröting demonstrates these objects as artefacts of a pre-history, which specifies itself in being staged in this gallery space. In looking back, Familienwerkbänke makes visible a new present – an understanding of the work beyond the realm of art.

In her manifold artistic practices, which she has developed since the mid of the 1980s, Gröting translates sculptural thought in diverse media. She creates works, which transfer psychological as well as social relations into forms, the clarity of which makes the complexities they refer to graspable. In Familienwerkbänke, Gröting follows up the sculptural into its counterpart – the werken (crafting).