For his new exhibition in the gallery, Thomas Rentmeister went to the town Elbisbach, located in former East Germany, where he was invited to an abandoned domain, which had been an orphanage in the past. Already triggered by its potential, and looking for references to an objectivated and
abstract past in the leftover goods, the artist strolled into a part of the estate that was used as refugee camp until 2017.
It seems as if Rentmeister had to investigate a cold case; the artist has consistently reproduced the interior of the refugee housing into a room-filling installation in the gallery, accompanied with 22 photographs. It is like we are looking at deep frozen time.