Im räumlichen

At the spatial and conceptual center of the presentation is 4 Parkbänke mit 4 Papierkörben (4 park benches and 4 paper baskets; 1973), a significant early work by the artist Inge Mahn, newly donated to the Albertinum collection. Mahn’s practice draws on the environments of social interaction. With formal rigor and a touch of humor, her sculptures and site-specific installations dissect institutional architectures, examining how spaces such as schools, public areas, or museums create subjectivities. Over the course of her career, she developed a concentrated artistic vocabulary defined by the consistent reduction of her materials to plaster: in loosely applied layers, she encased wooden or metal constructions in a uniform white, always allowing the personal to emerge through the imperfect, the "unclean" hand of the artist.