With the exhibition Christian Odzuck - A piece of marl, the sculpture museum is back after almost four months of relocation and is resuming its exhibition program at its new location in Marl-Hüls. For this purpose, the Essen-based artist Christian Odzuck transformed the three original classrooms into a laboratory exhibition specially developed for the location. Not only is the museum trying out new forms of exhibition architecture at the Martin Luther King School, Christian Odzuck is also experimenting with new forms of sculptural design. For the first time, he reveals the processes involved in the creation of his sculptural works and gives visitors an insight into his working process.

At first glance, A piece of marl seems to follow the tradition of a classic sculpture exhibition in terms of materials and manufacturing processes. However, the works of Christian Odzuck move between analogue and digital worlds and can often be understood as translations of digital drawings in space. Unlike the way the pen moves over the paper and thus creates a two-dimensional drawing, Christian Odzuck converts his digital drawing directly into a three-dimensional form using virtual reality and 3D printing. In this way, Christian Odzuck clearly reveals in A piece of marl the artistic potential that 3D printing has for the material and formal worlds of sculpture in the 21st century. At the same time, Odzuck's works also question the topicality of the traditional concept of sculpture and blur the boundaries between the digital and the analog, as well as between the sculptural object and the architectural structure.

A piece of marl