Heimatlose Volkskunst

Hidden in the brewery cellar, seemingly growing from its crumbling and rusting architecture, the impressive large scale "Heimatlose Volkskunst" installation has been erected.

This volatile installation has received broad recognition as an unique landmark of Berlin underground culture on a par with places like Tacheles and the East Side Gallery. Since it first opened to the public three years ago, it has been growing steadily to monumental proportions, and has been the subject of rave reviews in both national and international mainstream media.

The exiled South-American artist who has been working in Berlin for almost two decades under the label "Heimatlose Volkskunst," (homeless folk art) uses the civilizational waste found in the city's streets and abandoned buildings as material for his art. He studied in Santiago de Chile and Havana, absorbing theater, art, religion, philosophy, and the literature and myths of South America. Art is to him "a melting point between the spiritual and material, articulating something spiritual in a material way".

Sharply political and maniacally obsessive, this is a collagist work encompassing sculpture, painting, mural, works on paper, combining all these techniques in an ever-expanding installation that "owes as much to Shamanism, Santeria and Catholicism as it does to Mad Max and Texas Chain Massacre".