Stone – Light – Sound
About the stone sculptures by Kubach & Kropp
Stone is formed deep inside the earth, from
compacted sand or solidified lava.
It is formed through the interplay of temperature,
pressure and a lot of time. Volcanic eruptions,
natural erosion or earthquakes bring it
it to the light. Glaciers and flowing water
carry it over long distances and give it
it characteristic shapes.
Stone is the matter of our world, older than all life and
the history of the planet.
The origin and formation of stone through
archaic elemental forces can be seen in the sculptures
the sculptures of the artist couple Kubach & Kropp
still visible. The original surfaces of the
reddish-yellow crusts and natural sintering, for example, contrast with the
sintering contrast with
with processed, highly polished surfaces,
which allow a view into the crystalline depth of the stone.
depths of the stone.
Stone is often associated with strength, durability and stability
strength, durability and stability and is considered a
and durable material that can last for centuries
even millennia. This is why
the metre-high monumental sculptures of the
of the artist couple seem to be able to
outlast the ages to come. This presumed
stability, however, is thoroughly
the islands of pillars, for example, are shaking. Due to
a push, the massive stone moves back and forth
back and forth, undulating in a ponderous rhythm
and sounds amazingly clear and crystalline
through the pillars, the triggered drill cores
which rock along in their holes, rub against each other
rub against each other and produce their very own tones.
The sculptures by Livia Kubach and Michael Kropp point – past the impenetrable mass and immovable weight of the stone and through it – to the permeable, sensitive, light and momentary sides of the stone. In them, the seemingly unbreakable interpenetrates and interacts with the incessantly endangered, the seemingly eternal with the – often barely perceptible – fleeting. You can see that in them.
And you can hear it in them.
Often most haunting and inescapable in the works whose design does not follow a planned conception of sound: they sound very unique, thin-skinned and bony or with the quality of breathing, corporeal.
They seem – shaken and set in vibration – to touch us directly inwardly and just as physically, to make a hidden kinship with them vibrate in us, to shake us.
Others unfold extraordinary melodic possibilities that go beyond our tempered and sworn listening.
All of them elicit from me, more than I would have to elicit the sounds from them, attention to the simple, an alertness for the present moment, awakening my perception of the simultaneous and equal value of the unbreakable-eternal and the filigree-volatile, in the stones, in the moment and in us.
As dense and massive or fragile and succinct as their sound may be, they bring me without hesitation into a state in which I do not think, but feel that music is born out of silence and leads back into it.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
GMT Gallery Marc Triebold, Riehen, Switzerland
Galleria Kröger, Ascona, CH
2022
Galleria Kröger, Ascona, CH
2021
Gallery Rother, Wiesbaden
Castle Park Museum Bad Kreuznach
2019
Spielvogel Gallery, Munich
Rother-Winter Gallery, Wiesbaden
2017
Janzen Gallery, Düsseldorf
2016
Gallery Liebau, Burghaun near Fulda
MVB Forum Mainz
Gallery Janzen, Düsseldorf
Gallery Rother-Winter, Wiesbaden
2015
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich-Bonstetten, Switzerland
State Parliament Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz
Wilmsen Gallery, Rheineck, Switzerland
Galleria Stefano Forni, Bologna, Italy
2014
Galeria Anquins, Reus, Spain
Dorsch Gallery, Berlin
Gallery Schemm, Münster
Gallery Rother Winter, Wiesbaden
Bad Münster Stone Sculpture Museum
2013
Spielvogel Gallery, Munich
Gallery Netuschil, Darmstadt
Gallery Janzen Wuppertal
2012
Gallery au Fond de la Cour, Paris, France
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich-Bonstetten, Switzerland
Savings Bank Baden-Baden
2011
Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
Schemm Gallery, Münster
Gallery Liebau, Burghaun near Fulda
Spielvogel Gallery, Munich
2010
Gallery Melchior, Kassel
Gallery Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn
Gallery Henze Ketterer Triebold, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
Draenert Orangery, Immenstaad
2009
Gallery Janzen Wuppertal
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich-Bonstetten
Art Karlsruhe, Janzen Gallery
Liebau Gallery, Fulda-Burghaun
2008
Gallery Hrobsky, Vienna
Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
Märkisches Museum Witten
2007
Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Noran Gallery, Panker
Beddington Fine Art, Bargemon, France
2006
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich-Bonstetten, Switzerland
Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
Noack Gallery, Mönchengladbach
CHIAROSCURO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2005
CHIAROSCURO Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
ART Karlsruhe, Gallery Hennemann
Gallery Hennemann, Bonn
Gallery Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
2004
Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
Organ ART Museum, Windesheim
Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Gallery Melchior, Kassel
CHIAROSCURO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2003
Winter Gallery, Wiesbaden
Piretti Art Gallery, Knokke le Zoute, Belgium
Fischer Fine Art, Mougins, France
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich-Bonstetten, Switzerland
2002
Rosenkranz Gallery, Chemnitz
Liebau Gallery, Fulda-Burghaun, Germany
CHIAROSCURO Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Fischer Fine Art, Mougins, France
2001
CHIAROSCURO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Meissner Gallery, Hamburg
2000
Gallery Hennemann, Bad Homburg
Rosenkranz Gallery, Chemnitz
1999
Liebau Gallery, Fulda-Burghaun
Castle Park Museum and Roman Hall, Bad Kreuznach
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich-Bonstetten, Switzerland
Gallery Resy Muijsers, Tilburg, Netherlands
1998
Piretti Art Gallery, Knokke le Zoute, Belgium
Gallery Kontraste, Pietrasanta, Italy
Gallery Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn, Germany
Gallery Regio, Freiburg
Gallery Hennemann, Bonn
1997
Gallery Promotion des Arts Contemporains, Gesves, Belgium
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich-Bonstetten, Switzerland
LINE ART Gent, Piretti Art Gallery, Belgium
1996
KUNST edition Waldherr, Kirchheimbolanden
Gallery Hennemann, Bonn
1995
Gallery Regio, Freiburg
1992
Gallery Annelie Brusten, Wuppertal
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Aquins Art Gallery, Reus, Spain
“Body”
Stone Sculpture Museum Bad Münster
2022
“Sculpture and architecture”
Stone Sculpture Museum Bad Münster
Bohrer Gallery, Bonstetten near Zurich, Switzerland
Ebernburg artists’ railway station
2019
“Water and Stone” Stone Sculpture Museum Bad Münster
Discovery ART Fair Frankfurt with Galerie Rother-Winter, Wiesbaden
2018
Discovery ART Fair Frankfurt with Galerie Rother-Winter, Wiesbaden
“Couples” at the Bad Münster Stone Sculpture Museum
Art Brussels with Galeria Anquins, Reus
ART Cologne with Henze-Ketterer-Triebold, Riehen
ART Karlsruhe with Henze-Ketterer-Triebold, Riehen
2017
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Rother-Winter
Art at Karrie
Gallery Melchior Kassel
“Blue” Gallery Rother-Winter, Wiesbaden
2016
“Insight-Outlook” Stone Sculpture Museum Bad Münster
Arte Fieri Bologna art fair with Stefano Forni Gallery, Italy
“25 years of Galerie Bohrer”, Bonstetten near Zurich, Switzerland
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Wilmsen, Galerie Janzen
Galerie Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn
ART FAIR Cologne with Galerie Wilmsen
KUNST Zurich, Gallery Elfi Bohrer, Bonstetten, Switzerland
2015
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Henze-Ketterer-Triebold, Galerie Winter, Galerie Janzen
Gallery Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn
Arte Fieri Bologna art fair with Stefano Forni Gallery, Italy
ART Bodensee art fair Dornbirn with Galerie Wilmsen
Janzen Gallery as guest at Löwenpalais Berlin
ART FAIR Cologne with Wilmsen Gallery
KUNST Zurich, Gallery Elfi Bohrer, Bonstetten, Switzerland
Fine Art Cologne Art Fair Cologne
2014
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Henze-Ketterer-Triebold,
Gallery Rother Winter, Gallery Janzen
ART FAIR Cologne with Galerie Wilmsen
KUNST Zurich, Gallery Elfi Bohrer, Bonstetten, Switzerland
Gallery Interart in Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands
Galeria Anquins, Reus, Spain
2013
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Winter, Galerie Janzen
ART Cologne Cologne with Galerie Henze-Ketterer-Triebold
Kurhaus Baden Baden art fair with Galerie Wilmsen
Gallery Interart in Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands
ART Bodensee art fair Dornbirn with Galerie Wilmsen
ART Copenhagen, Denmark, with Galerie Anquins
ART FAIR Cologne with Galerie Winter
8 x 8 artists at Herrenhof Mußbach
Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
KUNST Zurich, Gallery Elfi Bohrer, Bonstetten, Switzerland
Strasbourg Art Fair with Galeria Anquins
Affordable Artfair Hamburg with Galerie Wilmsen
2012
ART FAIR Cologne with Galerie Winter
KUNST Zurich, Gallery Elfi Bohrer, Bonstetten, Switzerland
ART ULM art fair with Galerie Dr.Wilmsen
“Confrontations”, Gallery Melchior, Kassel
“Black and White”, Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Winter, Galerie Janzen
Salo de Maig, Galeria Anquins, Reus, Spain
Nature and Sculpture, Eschborn (prizewinner)
5th Swiss Sculpture Triennial in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz, Switzerland
Art Days Winningen
KOKU Rheinhessen
2011
ART FAIR Cologne
KUNST Zurich, Gallery Elfi Bohrer, Bonstetten, Switzerland
ART FAIR Cologne, Galerie Anquins and Galerie Winter
“BackGround KünstlerKinder”, Herrenhof Mußbach
10 x 10 at Zehnthaus Jockrim
Salo de Maig, Galeria Anquins, Reus, Spain
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Winter, Galerie Janzen
“20 years of Galerie Bohrer”, Bonstetten near Zurich, Switzerland
2010
Salo de Maig, Galeria Anquins, Reus, Spain
KUNST Zurich, Gallery Elfi Bohrer, Bonstetten, Switzerland
ART Strasbourg, Galeria Anquins, Reus, France
Art Fair Düsseldorf, Gallery Janzen
Art Karlsruhe, Gallery Winter
ART Cologne, Galerie Hennemann
“Colour Blue” Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
SCULPTURA 2010, Beckingen
2009
4th Swiss Sculpture Triennial in Bad Ragaz and Vaduz, Switzerland
Art Karlsruhe, Hennemann Gallery, Winter Gallery
ART COLOGNE, Gallery Hennemann
Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
Car Park Düren
2008
ART Karlsruhe, Gallery Hennemann
JOS ART, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galleria Kröger, Ascona, Switzerland
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
Car Park Düren
State Garden Show Bingen
2007
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
ART Karlsruhe, Hennemann Gallery
JOS ART, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Beddington Fine Art, Bargemon, France
Fine Art Cologne, Gallery Winter
2006
ART Karlsruhe, Gallery Hennemann
Piretti Art Gallery, Knokke le Zoute, Belgium
Liebau Gallery, Fulda-Burghaun
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
2005
ART Frankfurt, Gallery Winter
ART Chicago, CHIAROSCURO Gallery, USA
Gallery Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
2004
“Köpfe” Gallery Winter, Wiesbaden
AAF Contemporary Art Fair New York, CHIAROSCURO Gallery, USA
ART Cologne Cologne, Hennemann Gallery
2003
“Horizons” Art and Diaconia, Bad Säckingen
Zurich Art Fair, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Switzerland
Gallery Resy Muijsers, Tilburg, Netherlands
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
2002
E-Werk Halls for Art, Freiburg
ART Frankfurt, Gallery Hennemann
ART Vienna, Gallery Hrobsky, Austria
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
2001
RAI Art Fair, Amsterdam, Gallery Resy Muijsers, Netherlands
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
2000
RAI Art Fair, Amsterdam, Gallery Resy Muijsers, Netherlands
Institute for Lippe Regional Art, Schwalenberg
Gallery Meißner, Hamburg
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
1999
RAI Art Fair, Amsterdam, Gallery Resy Muijsers, Netherlands
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
1998
“Gefäße” Gallery Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn
Carolinensaal Pirmasens
Gallery Resy Muijsers, Tilburg, Netherlands
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
1997
“Horizons” Art and Diaconia, Bad Säckingen
Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel
Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
Landeszentralbank Mainz
Kunst Wien 97, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Austria
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
1996
ART 96 Strasbourg, Gallery Regio, France
Ceramics Museum Westerwald, Neuwied
“Das Haus” Gallery Moderne, Bad Zwischenahn
ART Cologne Cologne, Gallery Hennemann
1995
“Other Places” Wuppertal
Bergische Art Exhibition, Solingen
ART Cologne Cologne, Hennemann Gallery
1994
Kluvin Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
Authors’ Gallery Munich
ART IN BUILDING COLLECTIONS
Böbingen School of Art
Fountain installation Salinenbad in the Salinental Bad Kreuznach
RITTER Museum, Waldenbuch
ARTOTHEK of the City of Oldenburg
Ministry of Culture Mainz
Main-Taunus Clinics Bad Soden
State Central Bank Mainz
Cruise ship MS Europa 2 from Hapag Lloyd
HERAEUS Hanau
Museum for Sepulchral Culture, Kassel
Sculpture Park Niederhöchstadt, Eschborn
HILTI Liechtenstein
CHIAROSCURO Sculpturegarden
Santa Fe NM
GENZYME corp. Boston M
Collection Villa Burgeff Hochheim
Church of St Barbara Recklinghausen
Landau tax office
Stone sculpture park Bad Münster am Stein
Nahetal Golf Club Bad Münster am Stein
Bad Münster am Stein spa gardens
Traffic roundabout Bad Münster am Stein
Bad Kreuznach Castle Park Museum
Bad Kreuznach town centre
Deaconry workshops Bad Sobernheim
Church of St Martin Biebelsheim
Stipshausen sculpture trail
ORGELMUSEUM Windesheim
Rohrbach Prison
KOGAG Solingen
Gemünden company Ingelheim
Sculpture park of the Incontro Gallery, Eitorf
Paulinenstift Nastätten
Sculpture Trail Rhineland-Palatinate, Pirmasens
Barmer Anlagen, Wuppertal
