Sabine Mohr

Das Dritte versuchen, das Eine finden, 1985

Sabine Mohr, Das Dritte versuchen, das Eine finden, 2024, © VG Bild Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Antje Sauer; in the background: Parastou Forouhar, The Eyes, 2018, Courtesy the artist

Sabine Mohr (*1956, Barmstedt, DE) works with everyday objects, which she removes from their familiar contexts and places in relation to one another, with the aim of revealing the hidden, overlooked nature of things.

In this respect, she follows in the tradition of the Fluxus movement, among others, which sought to overcome the boundaries between art and life. During her studies at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, she took part in the first Art-of-Peace Biennale in 1985.
In the work exhibited there, Das Dritte versuchen, das Eine finden (Attempting the Third, Finding the One) Mohr relates the form of the string game to the possibilities of peaceful coexistence. The strings stretched between two hands installed on the wall metaphorically encourage play and joint creation. Sabine Mohr understands peaceful coexistence as a process that must be actively and constantly recreated. In the image of mutual giving and taking, the abstract concept of peace is thus given a concrete form.

EINZEL- UND GRUPPENAUSTELLUNGEN U.A.:

Imagine-Gallery, Peking, CN (2004); Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, FR (2001); Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V., Hamburg, DE (1998); Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE (1986); Art-of-Peace Biennale, Hamburg, DE (1985)