Michael Beutler

Born in 1976 in Oldenburg (Germany), he lives and works in Berlin.

Michael Beutler’s works are intimately linked to the spaces in which he intervenes, responding to their volumes while offering a very particular reading of their history. Ample and generous, these installations are a concentrate of multiple formal concerns, autonomous structures within the architectural setting that they appropriate. Beutler does not intervene on the existing space, but the excess of his intervention in a given space completely displaces the way we perceive it. The result is like an interpretation of the chosen space, which his work both reveals and inhabits. The artist calls into question the usual principles of construction.

Pipeline Field by Michael Beutler, which is very strongly linked to the site, gives a very special reading of the Chapelle Saint Jacques. This generous work is an autonomous architecture within the architecture of the art centre. The implementation of an experimental production chain that is at once DIY, inventive and precise is imposed. Monumental, it disrupts the perception of the space despite its obvious fragility. The Tetra Pak® paper (milk packaging), the star material of this exhibition, invades the place where the exhibition space / work space / workshop merge. Thus inhabited, the Chapelle Saint-Jacques fades away with jubilation in favour of a work that questions the spectator's physical and intellectual relationship to the notion of public and private space.