Gallery Antje Wachs is pleased to present “Not Yet a Widow”, the first solo exhibition in Berlin by artist Nina Lola Bachhuber, on view from January 21st to February 25th 2006.

Nina Lola Bachhuber creates sculptures and installations in which a certain eeriness and uncanny humor undermine issues of color, material and scale while playfully dealing with body, architecture, interior and the natural landscape. In her sculptural work as well as in her drawings, she moves in varying levels of flux between abstraction and figuration, the organic and geometric. Her drawings convey a mysterious mood of fragmented memories, desires, truths and lies while avoiding story telling. For her Berlin debut Nina Lola will present three sculptural installations as well as drawings.

Upon entering the gallery, as a sort of strange welcome, visitors will encounter “Kassiererinnenzungen”, which seems to block the main gallery: a wall of long bricks made out of foam and colored fabrics, which oscillates between “solidly” built architecture and the “soft”, “cushioned”, detailed interior.
“Noctambules” are large drawings in dark blue ink. Closer observation of the almost liquid, abstract forms reveal hands, feet, breasts and teeth; what at first impression seems abstract and distant becomes dark and comically scary.
The title piece, “Not yet a Widow”, humorously exists between a chimney, a cabinet and a sculptural pedestal. Holding a fox fur and eggs with tails, formed by strands of hairs, this mysterious yet funny furniture-sculpture evokes ideas of life, death, a tamed wild life and domesticity.
A woman hunting?
With bittersweet humor, “Fausse Blonde” wittily references the traditional "Toilette" genre.

Nina Lola was born in Munich and educated at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Hamburg.
Her work has been featured in “Greater New York 2005” at P.S.1/MoMA Queens, “Hanging by a Thread” at the Moore Space, Miami, “International Paper” at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Metro Picures, The Drawing Center’s Selections and many other venues.
Her work is in the collection
of the Museum of Modern Art.