BLOCKEN / Further Reductions

Published on the occasion of BLOCKEN / Further Reductions, Nina Könnemann’s 2025 exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, this double volume brings together two central strands of the artist’s work. 

BLOCKEN explores vision as a situated practice within the temporality of real-time. In choreographed live-filmmaking-performances, multiple camera perspectives generate a layered visual field, shaped by overlays, collective decision-making, and the tension between control and improvisation. 

Further Reductions engages a sculptural approach that applies prehistoric flintknapping techniques to industrial sanitary ceramics. The resulting objects emerge from a deliberate interplay of precision and chance—oscillating between tool, fragment, and sign, and articulated through a gesture that reflects cultural imaginaries of origin and history with both critical distance and speculative resonance.

Together, the publications offer insight into a cross-media practice that negotiates the relationship between perception, materiality, and mediality—between fleeting presence and temporal depth. [publisher's note]