Daiga Grantina: Pillars Sliding off Coat-ee

In cooperation with Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V. and curated by Rhea Dall, the Kunstverein is pleased to present the young artist Daiga Grantina (*1985 in Riga, Latvia) with her first major solo exhibition in Germany. Grantina creates voluptuous sculptures out of perforated and shifting surfaces that despite their apparent monumentality convey a frail lightness. The semitransparent, body-like structures climb and crawl through the exhibition space in constant metamorphosis, merging supposed opposites such as liquid and solid or soft and hard. Let loose in the white cube, Grantina’s glittery, embrittled matter absorbs the surrounding architecture. Akin to burgeoning algae, her interventions displace, color, and undress the institutional coat in an equally invasive and all-inclusive drive.

The show marks the start of the Kunstverein’s Best & Boldest series featuring a variety of young artists who work in all media and with different convictions, but have one thing in common: the multifaceted engagement with questions of our reality.

With the kind support of the Culture Department of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, and the Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst.