For the glass hall of the Lehmbruck Museum, Peter Kogler has designed an immersive space within the "Sculpture 21st" series that creates its very own artificial reality. Room-filling curtains create an illusionistic space, which they share with metal objects and a mirrored, walk-in cube. This enables us to immerse ourselves in a virtual cosmos of black and white patterns and experience disturbing phenomena of consciousness. Kogler expands these spatial experiences with beings that virtually join the objects in the glass hall. Kogler's virtual realities can also be experienced via your own smartphone. At the interface between the public space of Kantpark and the museum's glass hall, we experience Peter Kogler's "mixed reality".
Peter Kogler is one of the pioneers of media art. He began working with computers as early as 1984 and perfected the design of mediatized spaces in the 1990s. The characteristic motifs of his striking computer animations include tubes, globes, brains and ants. Kogler designs image codes for today's world, which is characterized by data streams, and combines them with a physical experience of disorientation. With great enthusiasm for experimentation, he creates architectural illusions at the interface of real and virtual space. These are immersive spaces that engage us with all our senses.
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