Place, material, action, resistance

"I understand performative sculpture as spatial practice that explores and shifts power relations between bodies, material and architecture. In contrast to architecture and public space, work emerges on the intersection of sculpture, intervention and sound. Using minimal interventions, physical actions and processes specific to materials, I explore porous states in which stability, tension and balance are renegotiated. Body and space do not seem to be fixed, structures separated from one another, but as effects of continuous interference and uncertainty. By actively subverting concepts such as position, identity, extension and boundary, spaces open as a process-oriented, queer-resistant search for the present."

Max Weisthoff, born 1988 in Hanover, studied Fine Art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts in Kiel and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2018, he completed his diploma in Fine Arts as a master student of Professor Olaf Metzel. From 2019 to 2022, he was the research assistant of Professor Andreas Garkisch for Design and Urban Architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar. 2024-2026, he was a senior artist for sculpture at the Mozarteum Salzbug / Bildnerische Innsbruck (AU) with Professor Beate Engl. 2016-2019, he was curatorial director of, amongst others, GALERIE FOE, and since 2015 of REZEPTFREI Munich with Kai Kiklas. Exhibitions include: 2022 A WHITE RAINBOW, Sommeratelier Kunstraum, Munich; 2024 CARRYING THE EARTH TO THE SKY, Various Others Special, Munich; 2025 SHARPER THAN A NEEDLE, Kammerspiele, Munich; and participation in the A BUNCH OF NOISE Festival, Shanghai (CN). Max Weisthoff is an alumnus of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation; his work has received numerous awards, including the Akademie-Verein Prize (2018), the FERCHAU Art of Engineering Art Prize (2018), the PERSPEKTIVEN Art Prize (2020) and the NEUSTART KULTUR grant (2021).