Asta and Christian C. Holler. A Portrait in Adjectives.

2024

Permanent installation at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Permanent loan of the Holler-Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Adjectives from biographical sources, wall foil
20,22 m x 12,51 m

From the available biographical sources, all the adjectives associated with the two donors Asta and Christian C. Holler of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg were filtered out and compiled, resulting in a portrait in adjectives, a list of typical characteristics, but also a list of characteristics taken out of context.
The adjectives describe and characterize the two personalities and their living environment; they create images of what and who they might have been. The words are therefore characteristic of the two founders, but at the same time they also create an identity for the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, and visitors may also find descriptions that apply to them as they read.The 440 characteristic words identified go far beyond the two founders Christian C. and Asta Holler, and anyone who walks through the foyer of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg can find references to themselves, to the museum, but also to the two donors, who are described here in a precise and multi-layered way.

Design in collaboration with büro uebele.