The Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry Bonn 2011

connected + curtain

Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Bonn

• PU on wall

In Heike Weber's installation works, static spatial boundaries are set in motion. Drawn forms, ornaments, and structures float in apparent nothingness. Gravity is visually negated by flying bodies; abstract topographies expand spaces and cause floors and walls to oscillate.

Where conventional communication methods fail, where dead ends lurk and disorientation threatens, equipment, precision, and calculation are paramount. Thus prepared, Heike Weber initiates processes of drawing and transformation in her works, which are always conveyed concretely to the viewer. Whether with pen, string, scalpel, or camera, whether as an ornamental pattern or projected lines: what emerges are open fields and uncertain situations that explore time and movement in the construction of space in a subjective way, both physically and mentally.

Both murals were developed in collaboration with the architects, investors, and the federal government. The color scheme was specified by the architects. The corridors are marked with a red carpet and a continuous red line, which serves as a guide and indicates the floors. The line is strict and emphasizes the corridor as a passageway.

The idea is to take up the concept of this line and make it "swing" on the ground floor, thereby dissolving its rigidity and "straightness." Both the foyer and the conference room are places where movement and communication converge.

CONNECTED—meaning connected, related, or connected—is the title of the 25-meter-long mural in the foyer. It consists of a multitude of overlapping circles, developed organically for the space rather than mathematically. Despite the doors that "cut" through it, the image coalesces into a whole. The circles intersect like intersections, seeming to extend infinitely and energizing the space. The color scheme is reversed, with the red unifying the space and providing a signal upon entering the foyer that is already perceptible from outside.

The BBA has many different areas of responsibility, which are visually represented by the individual circles. Through their overlaps, they interlock to form a complex, interconnected structure.

CURTAIN, in the anteroom of the BBA's conference room, consists of red lines that relate to each other from the top line downwards. This creates a three-dimensional illusion reminiscent of a billowing curtain. The entrance to the meeting room.

Stephanie Bohn, Projekt Art GmbH, Bonn