anna Bittersohl & Philipp Kummer

(works by Anna Bittersohl & Philipp Kummer)


ich hab noch nie gehört, dass es aufhört und das hat ja auchn Grund

| 2023 | Museum Modern Art Hünfeld

Installation preferable for a round room or a vault

Material:

painted alushape, roof battens, cotton, 3 sculptures (paper on wire), one note, Video projection with sound (4 chapters, 67:11 min, loop, media player), 21 pictures (mixed media on cotton), 5 TVs (5 different video loops, DVD), one lamp, one base, 2 wooden benches

Sound:

- from the video projection: music (guitarre and keyboard)/ footsteps/ breathing depending on the chapters of the film

- one TV has sound via headphones: guitar noise, movement sounds

3D tour (credits to welcome to the internet)


36° | 2023 | installation view, exhibition "Glasshouse" | KISS Kunst im Schloß e.V. Untergröningen

Installation for two rooms.

room 1

Material: tunnel built from painted foil, regional plants from a meadow, lamps, 2 fans, black tree

Sound: rustling and sizzling noise of the foil and the plants

room 2

Material: painted painter's fleece, roof battens, 2 projections (foggy landscape with trees, camera slightly moving by breath, looped), wooden footbridge (painted), bark mulch

Sound: wind, birds voice from time to time


Kiste und Tüte (ongoing projekts)

Anna Bittersohl & Philipp Kummer | Kiste und Tüte (ongoing projekts)

Gespräche im Staubwald | 2022 | installation view, Frühjahrsrundgang Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei

Installation for a room or corner

Materials: wall paper, poster, fake wood linoleum, two chairs, clothes, two skulls, cupboard, glas lamp,  bottles with alcoholic drinks, filled ashtrail, cigarette paper, tobbaco, lighter, two glasses, stuffed weasel, black tree, cats toy

Sound: conversation between two people/ 57:35 min loop

One person is the interviewer. He is asking his guest questions. The guest is a wellknown artist, a passionate tomato grower, aworld champion snorkeler.


untitled | 2021 | 57,35 min

conversation between two people. Somewhere in the middle of the conversation the moving picture and the sound are slightly falling apart. The movement doesn't seem fit to the movement of the persons so well anymore.


wir sind Staub, wenn du uns lässt | 2019 | installation view, Big Art 4 | Zaanstad, Amsterdam

Installation for tent or dark room

Material: round about 40 motorised humming-birds, roof battens, part of a real tree, lamp, cables, sand

Sound: noise of the moving birds 

over the duration of the exhibition birds keep breaking from the construction, due to its poorly structure, and fall to the floor next to the tree


die Unendlichkeit der Dinge | 2018| installation view, Big Art 3 | Bijlmerbajes, Amsterdam

Island installation

Material: cardboard, sand, roof battens, a self built clapping figure (painted fabric, roof battens, 2 metal washers, rope, hat), painted tent (with fairy lights and figure head), a half tent (painted, reaching out of a wall), 3 constructed trees from real trees, wooden hand crank, fake flowers, rope, nests (papiermaché, sand), several motorized humming birds (flying around the nests)

Sound: noise of the hummingbids moving around the nests

The island may be entered to move the hand crank. When the hand crank gets cranked, the figure in the front if the installation clapps (very loud metal noise)