{"id":1246,"date":"2025-05-27T06:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.good-broker.com\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:30:39","slug":"soft-cycles-daniel-holzl-fills-berlinische-galerie-with-inflatable-breathing-monoliths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.www.good-broker.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/soft-cycles-daniel-holzl-fills-berlinische-galerie-with-inflatable-breathing-monoliths\/","title":{"rendered":"soft cycles: daniel h\u00f6lzl fills berlinische galerie with inflatable \u2018breathing\u2019 monoliths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the Berlinische Galerie, artist Daniel H\u00f6lzl opens a new chapter in his ongoing conversation with space, structure, and impermanence. For the museum\u2019s 50th anniversary, the artist has installed \u2018soft cycles,\u2019 an architectural intervention that fills the void above the main entrance with 800 cubic meters of gently shifting air. The installation hovers in the threshold, its sculptural<\/strong><\/a> monoliths suspended between expansion and collapse.<\/p>\n

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Daniel H\u00f6lzl constructs \u2018soft cycles\u2019 from pieces of earlier inflatable<\/strong><\/a> works, all previously situated across Berlin. At Berlinische Galerie, these fragments, crafted from white parachute silk, are gathered into a single translucent volume. This temporary skin encloses what once were doors, vaults, or corners, reframing memory as spatial tension. With each breath, the structure shifts, and new forms begin to unfold within the old.<\/p>\n

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daniel h\u00f6lzl sculpts Structures with rhythm<\/h2>\n

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The choreography of artist<\/strong><\/a> Daniel H\u00f6lzl\u2019s \u2018soft cycles\u2019 plays out in timed repetitions at Berlinische Galerie. Air is absorbed and released according to an engineered sequence, activating the form like a lung. Daniel H\u00f6lzl situates this rhythm within the architecture of the gallery<\/strong><\/a>, where exhibitions, like the installation itself, are temporary and perpetually renewed. The building becomes a participant in the cycle, inhaling fragments of the past and exhaling new constellations of space.<\/p>\n

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In the hands of Daniel H\u00f6lzl, the materials carry their own logic of erosion. The parachute silk is durable, yet chosen for its delicate translucency. It registers each inflation as a gesture toward disappearance. At Berlinische Galerie, the fabric\u2019s softness sits in contrast to the museum\u2019s robust concrete and steel. What emerges is a negotiation between the fixed and the fluid.<\/p>\n

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Daniel H\u00f6lzl fills the entrance of Berlinische Galerie with a site-specific, inflatable intervention<\/p>\n

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Berlinische Galerie itself becomes a co-author of \u2018soft cycles.\u2019 H\u00f6lzl\u2019s installation echoes Fritz Balthaus\u2019 2004 marked space \u2013 unmarked space, an embedded line of stonework across the plaza. Where Balthaus traces the footprint of the absent building, H\u00f6lzl fills the air above it. This vertical expansion reframes the museum\u2019s entrance, reorienting attention toward the space that architecture leaves behind.<\/p>\n

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The air inside \u2018soft cycles\u2019 is at once a structural necessity and a carrier of memory. Daniel H\u00f6lzl approaches volume as a medium of change. Within the Berlinische Galerie, the inflating mass becomes a kinetic archive, holding traces of past exhibitions, prior forms, former sites. With each cycle, that archive is reordered, collapsed, and rebuilt again.<\/p>\n

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Living and working in Berlin since his studies at Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Daniel H\u00f6lzl takes the city as both subject and source. \u2018soft cycles\u2019 mirrors Berlin\u2019s continual reconstruction, where no surface remains untouched for long. H\u00f6lzl pulls from this urban condition without dramatizing it. His response is quiet and grounded in material empathy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\u2018soft cycles\u2019 is composed of recycled fragments from H\u00f6lzl\u2019s earlier inflatable works across Berlin<\/p>\n

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the structure breathes in and out at set intervals, creating a continuous spatial rhythm<\/p>\n

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parachute silk forms a translucent membrane that contrasts with the museum\u2019s solid materials<\/p>\n

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the work responds directly to Berlinische Galerie\u2019s architecture and past artistic interventions<\/p>\n

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the installation cycles through fullness and collapse, revealing impermanence as form<\/p>\n

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\u2018soft cycles\u2019 draws attention to the evolving nature of cities materials and exhibitions<\/p>\n

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Daniel H\u00f6lzl positions architecture as a temporary condition shaped by repetition and change<\/p>\n

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exhibition:\u00a0<\/strong>soft cycles<\/p>\n

artist: <\/strong>Daniel H\u00f6lzl<\/a> | @hoelzldaniel<\/a><\/p>\n

gallery:\u00a0<\/strong>Berlinische Galerie<\/a> | @berlinischegalerie<\/a><\/p>\n

location: <\/strong>Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

on view:\u00a0<\/strong>April 25th \u2014 September 29th, 2025<\/p>\n

photography:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a9 Clemens Poloczek<\/a> | @clemenspoloczek<\/a><\/p>\n

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