Tauba Auerbach, born in 1981 in San Francisco and living in New York, traces the visible and invisible connections, structures and rhythms that shape our universe. Likewise, the artistic gaze is directed at the microcosmic and macrocosmic, from which the complexity of being is constituted. To this end, the artistic position engages with various scientific disciplines such as mathematics, physics, anatomy, linguistics and philosophy, whose rules and procedures it not infrequently claims for itself in an unconventional, obstinate manner. A special focus is on those areas that cannot be clearly measured, assigned or explained. Ambiguities, interstices as well as borderline phenomena are therefore recurring themes.
Auerbach's works, which include paintings, drawings, weavings, films, typography and sculptures, can be seen as sensitive associations with artistic research. On the one hand, they are characterised by an innovative, sometimes unusual aesthetic and formal language, and on the other hand by a remarkable diversity. Both establish Auerbach's sovereign position in contemporary art discourse. The exhibition at the Fridericianum brings together new works, some of them developed especially for Kassel, which are complemented by older, site-specific works.
