Back to Nature (Kon-Tiki), 2024
Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, 2024
Jägerschere, gallery for contemporary art / Sculpture park, Niederer-Fläming, 2025
Traveling sculpture / painted object.
Transformed and restored mahogany boat in two parts. Variable size.
Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, 2024
Jägerschere, gallery for contemporary art / Sculpture park, Niederer-Fläming, 2025
Traveling sculpture / painted object.
Transformed and restored mahogany boat in two parts. Variable size.
Back to Nature is a readymade sculpture composed of an antique mahogany boat, cut in two and recontextualized as a fragmented testimony to past ideologies and geopolitical currents. Originally built in 1973 during the GDR era at the former military testing site in Rechlin, the boat once bore the name Kon-Tiki—a reference that evokes colonial narratives, myth-making, and Western exploration.
Rediscovered in a barn north of Berlin, the vessel is reactivated as a sculptural object that engages with themes of European history, postcolonial memory, and ecological consciousness. Through its material presence and rupture, Back to Nature invites critical reflection on ownership, identity, and the layered sediment of forgotten or suppressed histories.
