Berlin

Paul Pfeiffer | Three Figures in a Room

30.03.–23.04.2016

carlier |gebauer is pleased to present a solo exhibition with Paul Pfeiffer. Three Figures in a Room will be the artist’s first exhibition in Berlin since his landmark show at Hamburger Bahnhof in 2009. The Saints used the controversial 1966 World Cup Final between England and West Germany as a sort of “found text” through which to stage the fundamental dynamics of crowds, nationalism, religion, and mass media spectacle. Pfeiffer’s work reconfigured this contested sporting event through radically reducing the scale of the image and isolating the sounds of the game—spatializing spectacle as a condition to be inhabited.  

Installation Views

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures in a Room, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, 2016
    Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures in a Room, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, 2016
    Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures in a Room, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, 2016
    Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures in a Room, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, 2016
    Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures in a Room, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, 2016
    Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures in a Room, exhibition view at carlier | gebauer, 2016
    Photo: Gunter Lepkowski

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures In A Room, film still, 2016 

  • Paul Pfeiffer, Three Figures In A Room, film still, 2016