Duration: 2.09. - 30.09.2024

The project of Akademie der Suffizienz 'Einweg geht noch einen Weg' focuses on disposable towels, also known as paper towels. This short-lived product consumes large quantities of cellulose, which are not recycled on paper due to the addition of cotton fibres. In Germany, around 100 million pieces are consumed every day (as of 2016), which corresponds to 38 billion per year. With its installation, the Akademie der Suffizienz wants to draw attention to this problem and sensitize people to the associated large consumption of resources with little added value.

The Akademie der Suffizienz, located in rural Brandenburg, is a real-world laboratory for ecological management and develops alternatives in production, distribution and supply. In doing so, it is based on regional exchange and sufficiency as a model of material management. The academy offers overnight accommodation, group rooms, a self-catering kitchen, various workshops, agricultural test fields, a themed library, fruit and berry garden and a kitchen for food processing and preservation.

The "BANG CELL" is a massive accumulation of detonations, a bang accumulation, an expansive force that is at the same time trapped in a closed cell, a glass box. Explosive power, compressed in a confined space; like a small big bang just before expansion. Inside it seethes enormously, outside an ordinary, public place. The room remains closed, and the installation can only be viewed from the outside during the exhibition. Do catastrophes lose their horror due to the accumulation of images? Can destruction degenerate into decoration? Are you safe outside the blast cell? Is there an outside?

Albrecht Fersch (*1970 in Schweinfurt) has studied at the Academy of Arts in Munich and has lived in Berlin since 1995 . As a performance, sound and installation artist, his work includes painting, object art, sound apparatuses, participatory works, poetry and logorealism. He has received numerous awards, including the project scholarship DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (2023), the Neustart scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2022), the art prize of the Landesgartenschau Wassertrüdingen (2019) and the Gelderner Turmstipendium (2020). Fersch was the artistic director of the SUPERTHEATER (2012) and is known for the message in a bottle project GEOPOETEN (2017).