
10/06/2025
On Thursday at 7 pm the Artist Talk with Rebekka and Malte will take place. Come along to the gallery.
Another work by Rebekka in her exhibition "Dream Baby Dream" is the sculpture "They Longed For An Ancient Tragedy", 2025
Malte Lin-Kröger writes the following in his text about the work:
„...another replica that appears twice in the room: an echo of Richard Langer’s bronze sculpture Flora, once freestanding, once mounted on a tripod like a spotlight. The original cast from 1920 – an interpretation of the Roman goddess of spring, naked and youthful in the look of German life reform – can be found behind glass in the Mülheim Stadthalle. The sculpture did not survive the unprotected public space, more precisely the Mülheim city garden. It was smeared, sprayed and one of its arms was chopped off. The artist’s doubling of the sculpture echoes the last, unsuccessful attempt by the Mülheim city council to at least preserve a copy of the Flora made from plastic at its original location. Does this space offer her a newly created shelter? Or is it just condemning it to a shadowy existence?“
Rebekka Benzenberg
They Longed For An Ancient Tragedy, 2025
Worbla, UV resin, epoxy resin, glass fibre fabric,
fabric
60 x 160 x 60 cm
Photos by
benzenberg