Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung

On 15 May, a new exhibition at ZiF started with an opening event. The artist Ubbo Kügler and the managing director of the Stiftung Insel Hombroich in Neuss discussed the works Kügler chose and created for the exhibition 'Torensenge' at ZiF.

Ubbo Kügler's works are created from drawings that he creates in association with everyday experience and vision, like a stream of consciousness. Links in these chains of perception and memory can be aggregated into motifs or narrated in wall works and room installations in new associative spaces. The clowns fighting ('Torensenge') are one such motif. For the exhibition at ZiF, Kügler works with this motif, layering and repeating it on canvas and as a spatial installation. Paper or foil are his materials for transferring the drawing into space. The aggression of the gates' movements is transferred into broken and torn surfaces of printed paper.

(all images: Universität Bielefeld/R. Moltmann)

Ubbo Kügler lives and works in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. He completed a masterclass at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Professor Fritz Schwegler and founded the design studio Affenreiter.de in 1998. In addition to his freelance work, Kügler was Professor of Flat Depiction and Media Design in the Design Technology programme at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 2007-2013. Since 2013, he has been Professor of Communication Design at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Hamburg.