Raphaela Vogel: Bellend bin ich aufgewacht

In Raphaela Vogel (*1988, Nürnberg) Kunsthaus Bregenz is presenting one of the youngest artists in the history of KUB. Vogel generates links between sculpture and video, space and the readymade. Her art exists in a physically palpable tension and in a richly contrasting interplay between imagination and scale. Powerful and energetic spaces evolve, bringing into focus issues pertaining to human, especially female, subjectivity. The top floor of Kunsthaus Bregenz houses a work specially developed for the site. Raphaela Vogel has acquired the remains of a disused miniature model park. The models are weathered and covered in moss: Tower Bridge, the Arc de Triomphe, the Statue of Liberty, Vienna’s Giant Wheel, the Frauenkirche in Dresden, and the Victory Column in Berlin. “The Kunsthaus, too, is a sign, a landmark, and an image for marketing the town.” Kunsthaus Bregenz, with its tranquil industrially seeming spaces, is not only suitable for such spatially expansive sculpture, its scale alone provides the very best scenario for Vogel’s experiments.