Petra Gipp

Architect Petra Gipp exhibits plaster casts in the Sculpture Hall. The castings are part of the book "passage/shaft/niche/lining/hub – hiking" that comes out on the day the exhibition opens. 

The book published by Arvinius + Orpheus Publishers describes Petra Gipp's architecture using plaster casts, inklaids and the words of the poet Ann Jäderlund. The exhibition of the 34 models takes place on plinths in grey beige cardboard cut in layers, many layers. One and a half tons of cardboard connect directly to the works, which gives bass, weight and anchoring in Liljevalch's sculpture hall. In addition, music by Pelle Ossler and Christian Gabel that makes the plaster and sculpture hall lift, soar and unite.

"Petra Gipp's exhibition is certainly a short interlude, but we can assure our visitors that the sculpture hall has never been more poetic and charged," explains Liljevalch's manager Mårten Castenfors.

"You could say that Gipp's works are made for this context and they do not get any worse from the fact that they include a book that is rather
to resemble a work of art. In this there are also newly written poems by the poet Ann Jäderlund – can it get better?

Petra Gipp herself comments on her book artwork and her exhibition with the words: Work with models is central. It is a method that, often shelllessly,
approach the architecture. Here the spatial can be sculpted through a focus on volume, elements and details, where everything is fused into one thought. Seamlessly working with a material gives me an opportunity to design an architectural idea based on the material. In this way, the rooms and volumes that I create can have a clarity, a personal voice.

Petra Gipp was born in 1967 and lives and works in Stockholm.

The exhibition runs from 27 April to 13 May, Tuesday-Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Mondays and May 1 closed.