Jugendzimmer

Carpet (felted wool, traces of paint) & cushion objects (ink, chalk and charcoal on fabric), 240x160, 2026

Shown as part of the art hiking festival Mühlacker (DE), a collaboration between Cheapart and APART (GR), Kunst im Keller (AT), the Künstlergruppe Mühlacker and the Volkswanderverein Senderstadt Mühlacker, March 2026 

The performative installation “Youth Room” explores the liminal spaces found in everyday life, such as the process of growing up within family life. Traces left behind and passed over are visible on the surface of the carpet and the cushion objects. Remnants of paint bear witness to the artist’s first attempts at painting during her teenage years, when the same carpet covered the floor of her room. Like the woolly lines woven into the carpet fibres for the installation, the traces of paint retrace attempts and decision-making processes. They tell of the search for expression and creative processes capable of triggering disruption and change in everyday life. The installation is conceived as a performative playground for collectively reading the traces. Visitors are invited to step onto the carpet without shoes, to arrange the cushion objects as they wish, and to sit or lie down.