🎨 Blurring the lines between art and everyday life, Sspatz renders artmaking a collective act with their “Toolbox” exhibition at Compound Yellow. | ✍️ Maxwell Rabb
Artist Simon Fischer’s ceramic plate is meant to be thrown, directing visitors to destroy an art piece despite their natural reluctance.“Most of the time, the ideas come to us. They are falling into our net,” says Jonas Mueller-Ahlheim, co-founder of thecollective. When pandemic lockdowns closed art galleries in 2020, Mueller-Ahlheim and fellow sspatz cofounder, Thomas Georg Blank, were already hoping to reimagine art venues.
The work is designed to puzzle people and inspire playfulness, challenging the traditional boundaries of art galleries, and this is especially present in Steinbrecher’s, positioned at the center of the gallery. The piece features simple household items including soap and multicolored sponges that Steinbrecher decontextualizes, saying “It’s not about solving the riddle, it’s about liberating the material.” Defining the items becomes the responsibility of others.
To activate the art, guests cannot simply browse an exhibition, they are required to play with the tools.The Compound Yellow exhibition highlights the materiality of art. For two years, recipients of the original “Toolbox” packages could manipulate the artwork by any means. The “Toolbox” becomes highly personal, obscuring the distinctions of authorship and confronting the traditional practice of artmaking. To activate the art, guests cannot simply browse an exhibition.
Both Mueller-Ahlheim and Blank believe that these interactions allow people to understand the art with deeper meaning. Experimentation and play becomes integral to the work, not exclusive to the artist. Similarly, Compound Yellow works to facilitate a space where creative work bleeds into everyday life and art is purposely shared. Sspatz reached out to Compound Yellow last year and cofounder Laura Shaeffer was impressed by the similarities of sspatz’s mission to her own.
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