Alexander Wolf

Alexander Wolf’s work is always concerned with power relationships, with the obsession with ideology, with restrictive thought structures, with ambivalences. Looking at the ambivalent conditions addressed by Wolf: there are art-things, which look simple, but are not, and then again they are; and there are works which look complicated, but are not. Wolf’s works do not make it easy for the beholder in this respect. The sculptural objects—which consist among other things of stones, foil, construction-site barrier tape, ladies’ tights, paper streamers, and hat-stand bases— are consciously made to come across as garbage. The gallery context confirms the assumption that looking, and looking again, could be rewarding. In this way Wolf remains below the level of expectation of the art public, and avoids the mere consumption of his work.

Wolf’s work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg, Germany, Malkasten, Düsseldorf, and power galerie, Hamburg, as well as group shows at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, and Kobe Art Village Center KAVC, Kobe, Japan. 

Courtesy of Oliver Zybok and Galerie Kai Erdmann