ROXANE LATRÈCHE (L) : Many of your works are open to the public. How did you come to work with art in public space and art in an architectural context?
ROLAND FUHRMANN (F) : I realised my first permanent in situ art installation in an office building in Halle/Saale while I was still a student. At 17 metres high, the kinetic installation Lichtbegegnung (light encounter) pierces the entire office building vertically, disregarding hierarchies, from the underground car park to the executive floor. In the meantime, sitespecific works dominate my work. House-high installations, sixty-metre-long or six-metre-high landscape sculptures weighing several tons are just as much a part of my work as tiny miniatures that enter a space kinetically and acoustically. Art in buildings offers me great spatial freedom, allowing me to work in completely different dimensions. But the most interesting point about art in public space is that it is open and freely accessible to everyone. It is the democratic idea of the ‘non-museum’, the everyday and immediate confrontation and communication with an audience that happens to stumble upon the art and may be open to interact with it.1
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