Collection: Agnes Lammert

Agnes Lammert's work deals with the duality of "inside/outside". She is interested in a vulnerable physicality that gains intensity and intimacy through concealment. Her modeled folds celebrate the alienation of form as its actual content. The shared experience of viewer and work of art makes the object a counterpart to the physical body. In the flowing, folding and tearing of the fabric-like surface, the works address the material heaviness to which they are exposed, as well as their potential physical power. Lammert's process is inspired by the exploration of the aesthetic and content-related consequences of the material when modeling in clay and casting in concrete, wax and bronze.

Agnes Lammert creates her sculptures by making models from a soft material, usually clay. Because this material can be kept moist, she has the opportunity to explore and find the final form without being constrained by time. She then makes a negative and fills it with the desired material, such as wax, plaster, concrete, plastic or bronze. The choice depends very much on the material itself and its color and how these two support the form. Free-hanging, floating or mounted, the works are placed in their respective environments in an exciting way.

Agnes Lammert's freely hanging sculptures symbolise lightness and heaviness, transience and permanence. The artist succeeds in bringing light, permeable fabric to life,
that caresses the forms of an implied body. Her freely hanging sculptures are often in constant gentle movement and trigger curiosity and fascination in the viewer. Agnes Lammert also knows how to give her works an inherent ambivalence between material properties and effect. The interplay of apparent heaviness and apparent lightness, in their mutual conditioning and contradiction, allows the viewer to immerse themselves in a meditative state that creates space for deeper reflections and interpretations.

A large part of Agnes Lammert’s catalogue raisonné consists of forms covered with fabric. These
"Shells" become the central element that gives meaning to the hidden form. During the creation process, symmetry and movement always arise, which creates the tension between the outside and the inside
intensified. In her early works the focus was on the outside space, while in later works the focus was increasingly placed on what is hidden inside. The act of wrapping and folding is for
Lammert a means of approaching the theme of physicality. Her works play with the concept of presence by hiding forms behind and under the folds. This not only makes the physical dimension clearer,
but also intensified, precisely because a clear morphology is no longer legible. Agnes Lammert sees her sculptures as physical counterparts and is particularly interested in the intensity of their spatial presence.

Agnes Lammert explores and studies the material world and its connections and similarities with the human body, how natural phenomena and natural forms remind us of other forms and structures,
that can be found in different contexts. This exploratory view also asks how organic form principles are repeated in the inorganic context and vice versa, but also how fertility, growth and decay affect all organic forms. This interest in the cycle of life is extended in some cases to the choice of material: the temperature sensitivity of the wax gives the work of art a unique
Transience and fragility, which emphasizes its exclusive and fleeting character.

Agnes Lammert, born in Dresden in 1984, is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in sculpture and drawing. She studied painting with Prof. Neo Rauch and Prof. Heribert C. Ottersbach and completed
In 2017 she took her master class with Prof. Bruno Raetsch. She is the founder of the sculpture group “Materialistin” and the communal house project “OurHaus eG” in Leipzig. Since 2018 she has been teaching continuously, including at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. She is the mother of two children and lives with her family in Leipzig.