ERCOLANO UNDERGROUND: Gerd Rohling

Since 1995, Gerd Rohling’s series , Water & Wine. has been exhibited in ever-changing constellations, in prestigious venues such as the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, the Venice Biennale, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, and the DomQuartier in Salzburg.

Now, installed in the Hermannplatz U-Bahn station, these chalices, amphorae, and bowls, seemingly made of glass, are brought into the everyday, subtly transforming this dynamic urban site into a cabinet of curiosities and PASSAGE into a vitrine. Previously shown only in refined settings, the objects now find resonance in a new environment.
The pieces are not made of glass but instead are constructed from plastic waste that Rohling has been collecting for years from the Bay of Naples.That in a setting like this, beauty emerges from what was discarded, value from what was once overlooked, makes the installation a quiet but powerful testament to transformation and possibility.

 

Curated Sebastian Hoffmann 
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