Hans-Christian Lotz

The work of Hans-Christian Lotz begins with the everyday, supposedly normal. Despite all the familiarity of its elements and milieus - common technologies, information systems or generic objects - its installations are characterized by a calculated inaccessibility.

Lotz's exhibition at Kunstverein designs the skeleton of a barren world of glass facades, fractals, ideologies and hallucinating source codes. At the center is a video installation with an interactive mechanism, which is however used for an effect of concealment. Encryption and abstraction techniques become part of a reflection on the specific historical practice of exhibiting and its potential non-anthropocentric future. In it, the distance between exhibited and potential addressees is extended until human observers fall completely out of this relationship.