Opening on Wednesday May 29, 2024 from 6pm
Curated by Sabine Schaschl
In 2024, Olaf Holzapfel received the Zurich Art Prize, awarded annually by the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland and the Zurich Insurance Company. As part of the prize, the Museum dedicates a solo exhibition to Olaf Holzapfel, entitled Der Mantel and curated by Sabine Schaschl.
In his multi-layered œuvre, Olaf Holzapfel deals with the conception and materiality of spaces. After the 2000s, during which he particularly focused on megalopolises and their relationship with virtual space, observing a kinship between urban structures’ grids and the internet’s digital grids, his interest increasingly shifted toward the physically material site. Since then, Holzapfel has been searching for ways to artistically dissolve dualities, such as those of city and landscape, interior and exterior, or virtual and real visual spaces, and to describe them as something fluid. The result is a constant exchange between these forces.
