Skulpturenpark is pleased to announce a new piece, Berlin Hills, a miniature city, by the Dutch artist, Erik Sep. The work presents the culmination of the artist’s current CBK-Dordrecht residency at Flutgraben, Berlin. Constructed around one of the park’s most distinguished hills, a pile of over-sized chunks and ruins of pre-war buildings, Berlin Hills rises in absurd contrast to the site’s former history and scale. True to urban development and the artist’s own process, Sep’s city advances the cyclical patterns of construction and demolition, of new on top of old. In the short history of Berlin Hills, buildings have come up and been torn down, renovated and extended. In this particular city, social housing and industrial buildings join stately European architecture– a portrait of Berlin.

Sep is now the second Dutch “developer” to commence activities on Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. Earlier this year, the fellow countryman had a life-size model of a luxury apartment built in front of the Bundesdruckerei on Kommandantenstrasse. The model presents the developer’s vision for the surrounding blocks: high-rise “Italian enclaves”. Beyond coincidence, Sep’s sculpture and the developer’s presence, offer the opportunity to see not only the contrasting ideals, but also the processes shared by both scales of production.

Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben e.V. – www.kunstfabrik.org
Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum – www.skulpturenpark.org