Christian Hasucha calls himself an interventionist. Living in Berlin/G. at the moment he has been reaching wide supra-regionally since 1981 into the public space to present wordlessly the conditionality of the everyday or rather its historical settings to the spectator of his performances and installations  - mediated through the experience of the visible elements. Signs and constructions in his art always make use of the factors of artistic discourse. 2006 for example he built a green island onto a scaffold, 3.50 meters above the ground of a trite street crossing in Berlin-Neukšlln and by that created a no-man's-land of meeting. http://archiv.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/07.07.2006/2644800.asp Since the 80s of last century he lets a local pedestrian walk on the spot on a pedestal in the midst of the traffic at different places in Germany. His catalogues downstairs in the basement contain more information about that. Christian Hasucha is also happy to answer questions personally. We are very pleased to have engaged Christian Hasucha.

A short afterthought may be allowed: A further construction of sign is remarkable - besides the filter pictures: Ostensibly a loud machine with an extrem long exhaust pipe it presents itself to the thinking view on another level as a sign which we know from mathematics. This is the 8 or the sign for infinity. With the point of view to regard this here as art which shows something that hints to something very different we recognize in-so-far this figure '8' which stands for change, metamorphesis, the path to knowledge.....in the path that the gas takesrom the motor via the bent pipe through the wall to the outside then through the bent upwards to the filter and through the door back again here onto the presenting wall. And when such work is good  expanding situations happen: directly below the filter equipment on the cultur-advertising pillar the 'Wanderer ueber dem Nebelmeer' ('hiker above the sea of fog') by C.D.Friedrich, poster for the exhibition "Caspar D.Friedrich" at that time at Kunsthalle Hamburg (museum in Hamburg). The fogs of nowadays, with which Christian Hasucha has worked, do smell different from those in the 19th. century. But they too ask to look through. Thankyou for your attention.

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