SPIEGELDING / FRAGMENTE

Gunnar Krempin

For the art and culture festival 48h Neukölln 2018 we have been invited by the organizer to implement one of five flagship projects in a prominent location for the festival theme ‘New Authenticity’. SPAR*K thematize the staged self-presentation, both in the net and in reality. The own representation and self-perception varies from network to network, from opposite to opposite and …

BUBBLE

Gunnar Krempin

As part of the festival topic  ‘SATT’, we examine how a saturated space would look,  and when exactly it is saturated. Is it the abundance of material that saturates the space, or is it the the narrowness of a space, that reaches the moment of saturation through its visitors? How does space change in its various degrees of saturation, and …

BALLSCAPE

Gunnar Krempin

The SPAR*KSTUDIO will be transformed into a large Ball pool, but has this anything to do with saving the world through art? SPAR*K is questioning in recent years how specific spatial characteristics, atmosphere and situations can be created, or experienced, through spatial, interactive objects. To do so, SPAR*K continuoulsy created large- scale works by multiplying every-day objects. The latest step …

Blaue Nacht Nürnberg – Gesprengte Ketten

Gunnar Krempin

SPAR*K have been selected for the second time to display their work at the Blaue Nacht Nürnberg art festival. For the festival theme freedom, SPAR*K develop a large scale walk-in sculpture Gesprengte Ketten. The installation approaches the term freedom in a spatial context and experience. SPAR*K are playing with commonly known symbols and images. When entering the space, it becomes …

Superscapes at Osram

Gunnar Krempin Brand Design

The OSRAM production plant is developing a new focus and commissioned SPAR*K to create a visual and sculptural anchor point, which is placed on site to transport the new brand guidelines of the lighting manufacturer. In a prominent spot between the meeting area and the restaurant, the sculpture grows along the wall and includes both the brand message and symbolizes …

Streiflicht

Gunnar Krempin

By installing Streiflicht in the foyer of the cultural center “Anker” we re-interpret the chandelier and turn the room into a proper foyer. While the classic chandelier often is a heavy-weight design fixture at a central location, Streiflicht extends two-dimensionally over the entire ceiling into the project area and under the canopy. The bands of light strips start at the …

HulaCube

Gunnar Krempin

SPAR * K developed an expansive sculpture that uses and occupies space like a labyrinth. The enclosed area is displayed as a blank space, a negative volume as filigree mesh of readymades is rotated and pushes through the facade. Inside, the space could not made out immediately: the hundredfold multiplication of hula hoops takes the contrast from the environment and …

BLUE NOISE

Gunnar Krempin

SPAR*K designs an installation for the exposed pier in Heiligenhafen for the Installationen Parcours hip(4). The sculpture connects and modifies the crossing paths of the pier. BLUE NOISE responds to given phenomena and spatial structures and transforms this structure by adding form and elements. It plays with wind, light and shadow and a contrasting materiality. Fabricated out of hundreds of …

Stars & Scapes

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Karl-Marx-Street is one of the important district centres of the city. A competition is held to improve the streets’ use and spatial qualities with 2D graphics and 3D sculptures. SPAR*K examines the street for its urban characteristics and qualities. Existing qualities, such as the sequential highlights along the street are being enhanced, athmospheres strengthened due to spatial transformation and the …

Blau*Licht light installation

Gunnar Krempin

The work BLAU*LICHT connects light, form and graphics on different layer to a large-scale ceiling installation. SPAR*K has been working with light as a graphic element in the past, during works such as RAUMRAUSCHEN and BLING BLIN G SCAPES, and is dealing with that field once again for the art Festival Nacht und Nebel 2013 in Neukölln. BLAU*LICHT superimposes and …

Mixtape – art installation

Gunnar Krempin

In collaboration with the fashion designer and artist Lucrecia Lovera from RETAPE, SPAR*K is looking into the field of life cycle and fugacity of man-made materials. Out of several kilometers of old VCR-tapes, they develop the sculpture MIXTAPE. The material as well as the media video is at the end of its cycle – outdated by new media is the …

Temporary hotel room KLF

Gunnar Krempin Brand Design

The Pension Stundenglück, a temporary hotel project, is created for the art and culture festival „Somewhere at water’s edge of river Spree“ of the Bachstelzen on the Spreestudio premises: individual hotel rooms can be rented on an hourly basis throughout the whole event. In collaboration with Saskia Cumpl, SPAR*K designs and builds KLF – one of the hotel rooms, a …

Chromification

Gunnar Krempin Sustainability

Neukölln is changing – at first, the transformation process the district’s appearance and residence has been undergoing was a subtle one, now it is omnipresent and visible at every corner. SPAR*K’s office exists in the district since three years and is thus part of the gentrification process in Neukölln. In the public discussion, gentrification is increaingly seen as the beginning …

Stage design for Camus – The Plague

Gunnar Krempin Architecture

The theatre and performance troupe RAMPIG staged ‘La Peste’ by Albert Camus as different performances which take place sequentially and parallel. In the theatre, the classic division between audience and stage is overridden, the spectator is part of a staged exhibition and decides by oneself, when and what one wants to see. The stage sculpture by SPAR*K made out of …

RAUMRAUSCHEN

Gunnar Krempin Architectual Art

SPAR*K is presenting a complex ceiling sculpture of 200 fluorescent tubes, which cuts across spatial boundaries, changes continuously and plays with light, color and pattern. The oversized lighting gives the visitor a total opulence of light and color. In the flickering flourescent light, RAMPIG will perform their work SAFT. The troupe from the Haus der Jugend Heidelberg is experimenting material-intensive …

COrtex Blaue Nacht

Gunnar Krempin

As one of 15 projects, the light installation and sculpture ‘COrtex Blau’ has been chosen for the art festival ‘Blaue Nacht Nuremberg 2011’ in a competition with the topic ‘strange realms’. Every year, more than 150.000 visitors attend the festival in the historic centre. COrtex Blau is an architectural installation, playing with the similarities and differences of architecture and sculpture, …

COrtex

Gunnar Krempin

During the Ostrale 010, SPAR*K is presenting COrtex, a project focusing on the space in between the feeding stables as a connection of the two buildings, as landmark object and ‘window’ for the Ostrale. The existing pedestrian bridge will be transformed into a patial sculpture with 1500metres of plastic tubes and 4000 cable binders. Intentionally, the sculpture COrtex is not …

SPAR*K transforms 600 bumerangs

Gunnar Krempin

Within the context of the art event “nacht und nebel 2010″ the sculpture ” “See how SPAR*K is transforming 600 Boomerangs” is created. SPAR*K works for this year’S art festival with the small-multiples principle and transforms PVC-Boomerangs into a space-creating stulpture: The boomerang as such is not recognizable anymore. The repetitive, continuous pattern of the joint boomerangs creates a permeable, …

ARCHITEKTURSKULPTUR PARASCAPES OSTRALE

Gunnar Krempin

We consider the architectural sculpture ‚Parascapes’ as architectural art, a sculpture that plays with existing situations, the relation of interior, exterior and in-between spaces, and the dimensions of the vast abattoir area. Parascapes is both an existing and a newly generated spatial phenomena, it grows and floats around the built volume, pierces through existing structures, correlates with existing situations and …

BODDINSCAPES

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Boddinscapes is the consequent progress in the evolution of parascapes, dealing with both the phenomena and interaction of sculptural insallation and function and the frozen moment in time mixing with animated movement. Boddinscapes consists of a lamella wall, a dynamic projection screen, and a sculptural furniture. Seating furniture, Sculptura and projection screen intermingle to the architectural sculpture Boddinscapes. The animated …