„…endlich wieder daheim!“ is Marko Lehanka’s third solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. The Frankfurt-based sculptor will present a series of new works in the project room of the gallery, works, which populate the room with bricollaged bodies, a series of farce, becoming form.

Lehanka’s works are distinctly shaped from the materials they assemble, scraps of wood, cans, empties, nothing too extravagant, but all within the realm of the home. This is where Lehanka’s sculptural installations live. The build a home, a re-initiation of the living spaces, a world in which the globalisation of production returns only in the fabrication tags of the plastic objects, a front garden, which turned upon itself. In installations like „Schöner Scheitern“ (2000) (failing more beautifully) his sense of humour becomes form in ways, which do not simply mock traditional concepts of sculpture but rather take them seriously, proposing that anything can be made into art, if only it finds and artist to form it. Traditional sculptural techniques, such as casting and moulding, return with a vengance here, in objects which have run through the same routines, but in industrial productions, which Lehanka combines with painted wood, concrete molds and hand-written text parts. The production is painly obvious in these bodies, the artists mimics a home-made craftsmanship and shows its possible expansions without mocking it.