ANNA VIEBROCK: HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE

Starting from research-based interventions in real architectural spaces, Viebrock develops hybrid environments where sculpture, scenography, and architecture converge.

She turns found fragments—stage models, doors, panels, furniture—into spatial collages that reveal their construction processes, question conventional scale, and play between familiarity and estrangement. Often built on-site, these installations recombine architectural elements and “found” objects in unexpected relationships, transforming the exhibition space into a narrative environment.

Her work treats space itself as material. With deliberate shifts in proportions, layered structures, and visible joinery, Viebrock exposes both the making and unmaking of places. These sculptural stage models, often originally conceived for theatrical productions, are repurposed as autonomous artworks. The process foregrounds improvisation and adaptation, reflecting on memory, site specificity, and the porous boundary between real and fictional realms.

In Heute Demnächst Ende at the Skulpturenhalle of the Thomas Schütte Foundation in Neuss, Viebrock applies this method in full. The installation draws from her 2021 stage design for the opera Giuditta, repurposing models, set fragments, neon signage, and architectural remnants. The result is a labyrinth-like environment of reconstructed portals, layered stage rooms, and sculptural models, all unified by a palette of turquoise derived from found wooden interiors. The exhibition offers a glimpse behind the scenes of theatre production, reactivated in a sculptural context. This is her first solo exhibition in a non-theatrical venue, where her practice of “inventing the found” unfolds as a sculptural narrative in space.