Armin Keplinger: Mass : One Cat. Kunstverein Heilbronn

Two panes of glass hanging in the room are slowly pulled away from one another by their lower edges; released, they swing back, collide, and shatter. The video by Armin Keplinger (born 1982 in Linz, lives in Berlin), which seems to demonstrate an experiment, explores the interactions and intersections of a material that exists as a sculpture both in analog space and in a digital space created by the artist. One of the two panes of glass is not real, but is indeed virtual. Virtual reality for Armin Keplinger is a way of formulating and expanding a concept of sculpture that he stages independent of gravity and physical laws. Glass repeatedly plays a prominent role in his works in a broad variety of contexts; due to its transparency and our notion of mass, things could invariably take a different course. But for Armin Keplinger, practically any material may be used to formulate the intriguing hybrid nature of a sculpture, its relationship to space as well as its function, since he too seems to delight in the old question about the notion of sculpture: is it science or art?

Matthia Löbke, born 1963, is artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, is curator and publishes monographic catalogs, among others to Carina Brandes, Natalie Czech, Katja Davar, Olaf Metzel, Carl Ostendarp, Michael Venzia, Silke Wagner. Armin Keplinger, born 1982 in Linz/Austria, lives in Berlin. He is an artist with focus on digital image creation and state of art CGI techniques. In his practice, Armin Keplinger explores the interaction between digital and physical spaces as well as the split between different stages of time. His video artworks, sculptures and installations have been exhibited at Kunsthalle Hamburg, 2021 prominently at the exhibition OUT OF SPACE, Opera National de Paris, Saatchi Gallery and Hessel Museum of Art among other ones.