Cornelia Parker (*1956 in Cheshire, lives in London) views destruction and physical forces as central to sculptural practice. In her sculptures and installations, she combines deconstruction with transformation, subjecting everyday objects to processes that alter their form and create new meanings. For the monumental Kesselhaus, she creates an immersive, site-specific piece – a phenomenal fictional event with immediate physical presence.

Curator: Kathrin Becker

10.12., 19:00
Nacht und Tag, hell und dunkel, links und rechts
Film screening with an introduction by Michael Baute (Lecturer, writer, media worker and curator, Berlin)
Cornelia Parker, Left Right & Centre, (2018, 9:32 Min.)
Cornelia Parker, Thatcher’s Finger, (2018, 3:39 Min.)
Selected by Cornelia Parker: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Nosferatu – Eine Sinfonie des Grauens, (1922, 94 Min.). Without dialogue with german intertitles and english subtitles. A film from the collection of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden.
In German and English
Free admission

Parker unleashes a storm of field recordings from different decades and locations above our heads. To achieve this, Parker drew on a wide variety of sound archives. Delicate, urban, rural, powerful – a magnificent work that should be savoured for its full 20 minutes.
[Ein Gewitter aus Feldaufnahmen verschiedener Jahrzehnte und Orte lässt Parker über unseren Köpfen hereinbrechen. Dafür bediente sich Parker aus verschiedensten Sound-Archiven. Zart, urban, ländlich, wuchtig – eine herrliche Arbeit, die man die vollen 20 Minuten lang auskosten sollte.]
tip-berlin.de, 25.9.2025

Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering) throws us inside an empty space, where there is only a light bulb hanging. Soon the sound of a powerful storm reaches us, making us feel unsettled from its terrifying uprising in a seemingly closed and protected space. 
Beatrice Sacco, thecolumbist.com, 29.10.2025

Room Guide Cornelia Parker. Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)
List of recordings Cornelia Parker. Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)
Bibliography of the KINDL bib 25/26 at Café Babette

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