Maria Eichhorn
Reuchlinstraße 4 b, 70178 Stuttgart
(2023—)
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Reuchlinstraße 4 b
70178 Stuttgart
Germany EN
Since the late 1980s, Maria Eichhorn has achieved renown for works that critically analyze institutional structures and consequentially act on situational-specific conditions of social, legal, and economic authority. Eichhorn’s exhibition project, Reuchlinstraße 4 b, 70178 Stuttgart (2023—) is constituted by processes and actions that respond to the ongoing history of property relations specific to the building at Reuchlinstraße 4 b, which the City of Stuttgart has owned since 1936 and which the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart has rented since its founding in 1978. Through research of State archives and legal casework, this site-specific exhibition project revisits how the building was acquired by means of coercive foreclosure. In doing so, Eichhorn’s work challenges the City’s ownership rights over the property while laying bare crucial questions about continued use of the property by the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Within the public space of the City of Stuttgart, a major component of Eichhorn’s exhibition project is a plaque affixed to the facade of the building at Reuchlinstraße 4 b. In addition to establishing legal protections and restrictions that complicate future ownership rights over the building, this plaque also presents an informational text—a damning report that weaves together a family biography with an interrelated history of banking practices, confiscatory laws, and discriminatory statecraft. Reuchlinstraße 4 b, 70178 Stuttgart (2023—) is a project of the Rose Valland Institute, founded by Maria Eichhorn in 2017 on the occasion of documenta 14. Please join us on Wednesday May 8th at 11am for the public unveiling of this plaque at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. Anna Schiefer, deputy chairwoman of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart board, Eric Golo Stone, former artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, and Marc Gegenfurtner, head of the Stuttgart Cultural Office, give introductory remarks on the exhibition. Adam Szymczyk, artistic director of documenta 14 talks about Rose Valland Institute. The plaque text is reproduced within the exhibition pamphlet which may be read here at the following link: Exhibition pamphlet.
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