ZEIT IST KEINE AUTOBAHN - FRANKFURT

Michael Sailstorfer

Michael Sailstorfer’s artistic practice is shaped by an approach that questions the fragile balances of contemporary society and the threat of the depletion of limited resources. By removing natural, industrial, or random materials from their original contexts, he transforms these elements into formally rigorous sculptures with redefined meanings. The artist’s interest in biological and mechanical processes expands the traditional questions of form and function in sculpture, incorporating social, political, and economic dimensions to critically interpret the dynamics of contemporary culture. Sailstorfer’s works, through the relationship between material and context, involve familiar objects in a process of aesthetic and intellectual re-evaluation.