6 February–7 March 2005
Opening Friday 6 February

Signal is opening the new season with an exhibition with Berlin based artist Michael Beutler (1976).

In his practice Michael Beutler is interested in conceptualising the relationship between the process of production and the quality-use of materials. In his playful method, Beutler also questions issues of standardisation of production. By building his own structures from common building materials as well as still-somehow-useable leftovers from the street, his method takes on a do-it -yourself strategy. In the logic of production he often constructs devices to rationalise the connection between given resources and the final object. These devices operate as helping tools which also provide the possibility to involve more people in the process of realisation of the work.

Beutler’s sculptural interventions can be seen as a materialisation of his dialogue with the given architecture. Most of the work is improvised on spot, the ideas of the final object change with the development of an appropriate material and vice versa.

Although a recent graduate from the Städelschule, Frankfurt, Beutler’s work has been exhibited at the Secession, Vienna, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Kunstverein München, the “Frieze Art Fair, “Utopia Station Sindelfingen” Sindelfingen, “Was ist in meiner Wohnung, wenn ich nicht da bin?” Berlin.