concrete sculptures surface from the pond of mies van der rohe's barcelona pavilion

"Until October 5th, 2025, the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona becomes the stage for Lost Limits, an artistic intervention by artists Anne Glassner and Marit Wolters that brings together sculpture, performance, and architecture to question where private life ends and public presence begins. Wolters' concrete sculptures are cast using water drawn from the Pavilion's pond, and, installed within the same pool, they mirror the surrounding travertine surfaces."

"Austrian visual artist and performer Anne Glassner's performance unfolds in parallel. On September 18th, 2025, she and German sculptor Marit Wolters wear camouflage clothing that blends them into the Pavilion's geometry while enacting everyday gestures, like sitting, drinking, eating, lying down, and looking. These mundane acts, displaced from their domestic sphere into a public architectural icon, make the familiar become estranged."

"The artists propose that architecture is a stage for lived experience and suggest that limits between inside and outside, object and subject, and visible and hidden are flexible rather than fixed. Lost Limits also extends Glassner and Wolters' ongoing collaboration, which began with interventions at Czechia's Villa Tugendhat in 2021 and 2022, another of Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich's seminal works."

The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona hosts Lost Limits by Anne Glassner and Marit Wolters until October 5, 2025. Wolters casts concrete sculptures using water from the Pavilion's pond and installs them within the same pool, where they mirror the surrounding travertine and reconfigure perceptions of materiality in a space associated with modern architecture's ideals of precision, purity, and timelessness. Glassner performs everyday gestures in camouflage clothing that blends into pavilion geometry; on September 18, 2025 visitors interact and disrupt the enacted domestic acts, revealing fluid boundaries between private and public, object and subject, visible and hidden. Lost Limits continues a collaboration begun with interventions at Villa Tugendhat in Czechia in 2021 and 2022.

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