Unter fünf Augen
Im Rahmen der Ausstellungsfolge entr’acte in der Klosterpforte
Kulturforum Franziskanerkloster
Städtisches Kramer-Museum Kempen
25 April – 30 August 2026
Wilhelm Mundt continually reflects on the sculptural traditions and conventions of modernism, rethinking and expanding them. The artist began with large-scale, mostly site-specific installations that placed industrial manufacturing processes and function-driven forms within autonomous artistic contexts. In the late 1980s, he became known for his series of works titled Trashstones. These “trash stones” are created through a labor-intensive process using trash, studio scraps, or fragments of old sculptures. Mundt now occupies a unique and distinctive position within contemporary sculpture.
Beyond his artistic practice, Wilhelm Mundt is concerned with the human perception of the self; he plays with time and space, working against chronology and linearity. He questions himself and human existence, his work, and the artistic process, in which he withdraws all of this from the visible realm and entrusts it to (collective) memory. For the Klosterpforte, Wilhelm Mundt will create an installation connected to this approach, through which he follows paths beyond the Trashstones.
Trashstones 843, 2025
production residues in stainless steel polished alone, blank, hygiene pallet stacked
134 x 151 x 80 cm
© Artwork: Wilhelm Mundt
© Photo: Achim Kukulies