MS 00 22 – Michael Sailstorfer, Works 2000–2022

Michael Sailstorfer (b. Velden/Vils, Germany, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) is one of the most renowned German sculptors and object artists of his generation. His sculptural creations, which often require extensive planning and complex production processes, are the results of reflections on and reinterpretations of everyday objects: intriguing, bizarre, and sometimes humourous experimental arrangements and artifacts that interact with their environments, create spaces, or self-deconstruct. These transformative processes combine conceptual depth with poetic allure and tell stories of the passage of time and disintegration. Many of Sailstorfer’s installations depend on the beholder’s active engagement for their effect. He typically documents his sculptural experiments with the camera and later shares them with the public in the form of videos or photographs. The extensive monograph MS 00 22 presents the most important works from Sailstorfer’s creative career. Formally diverse writings and conversations with the artist offer profound insight into his practice.

About the Author :
Kris Douglas is an independent curator based in Berlin. From 2006 until 2015, he seNed as Chief Curator of the Rochester Art Center, Minnesota, where he organized multiple group exhibitions. In 2004, he initiated the RAC Emerging Artist Series. an ongoing exhibition program designed to support artists at the beginning oftheir careers. As a writer, his essays have been published in various art journals. Frak Steinhofer lives and works as a freelance author of both fiction and nonfiction in Mexico City and Dahn, Rhine- land-Palatinate. In his texts, he deals with political ecology, near-natural art, and architecture. His debut novel Das Terrain (The Territory) about a new type of museum building nearthe Mexican rainforest was published in 2021. Magdalena Mai is an art historian and curator. Afterworking as a curatorial assistant at KINDL - Centre for Contem- porary Art in Berlin on various exhibition and publication projects from 2017 to 2020, she has been working there as a curator and project manager since 2020. She has published numerous texts on various artists and exhibitions. Lukas Feireiss is a curator and author specializing in the inter- national, transdisciplinary mediation of art. culture, and contemporary reflexivity. He is the editor of various books and curator of numerous exhibitions on art, design, and architecture. He teaches at various universities in Germany and abroad and is a visiting professor for transdisciplinary artistic teaching atthe Berlin University of the Arts. Johanna Grä fling builds, designs, conceives, researches, teaches and collects. Together with Friedrich Grä fling she runs Cultural Avenue, a cultural and design agency for projects in the fields of architecture. interior design, and art. They also run Salon Kennedy, an exhibition space in Frankfurt am Main, and the Kunstverein Wiesen. In parallel, they are continuously expanding their private art collection: the Grä fling Collection. Bernd Euler trained as a metalworkerfrom 1989 to 1991 and passed his master craftsman's examination in 1995. From 1996 to 2003, he studied at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach am Main. In 2003, he wrote his diploma on "Experimental Spatial Concepts" underthe supervision of Prof. Heiner Blum. In 2005, he founded Bernd Euler GmbH, specializing in the production of works by contem- porary artists. Sigurd Larsen is a Danish architect and furniture designer who lives and works in Berlin. After receiving his master's degree from the School of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, he worked at OMA Rem Koolhaas in New York, MVRDV in Rotterdam, and Topotek1in Berlin. Since 2016. Sigurd Larsen has been a professor atthe Berlin International University of Applied Sciences. Maria Bremer is an art historian based in Berlin. She is currently a postdoctoral academic councilor atthe Depart- ment of Art Historv of Ruhr Universitv Bochum. Her field of research includes contemporary art and exhibition history. Previous affiliations include the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, the Center for ltalian Modern Art in New York, and the German Center for Art History (DFK) in Paris. Johanna Adam is a curator at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn where, in addition to exhibitions in the field of modern and contemporary art, she works on interdisciplinary projects between culture and science. Previously, she worked at the Fridericianum in Kassel and for dOCUMENTA (13). She regularly publishes in magazines and exhibition catalogues. Neville Wakefield is a British writer and curator interested in exploring the ways in which art behaves outside of institu- tional contexts. He was senior curatorial advisor for MoMA PS1, New York and curator of Frieze Projects and has worked extensively with institutions in the United States and abroad, including the Schaulager in Basel. He is the curator of Desert X, an internation- al art bienn