Installation/Performance by Madeline Stillwell at Lynchmob Exhibition by Kollektiv-Berlin at .HBC

U.S. artist Madeline Stillwell, currently living in Berlin, is part of a large, hyperactive expatriate art scene in Berlin that is building alliances and networks in ways that could make the natives jealous. In her work, Stillwell "blurs the boundaries between sculpture, drawing, performance and installation, often incorporating all such classifications simultaneously".

Cocooning, or very slowly digging through the waste that she collects from her performance sites, and slowly appearing from under the stuff are an integral part of some of her performances. Often conceived as rather long, ambient pieces, they leave the audience free to come and go, but often freak them out as well, for instance by the slow appearance of a hand or leg, delicately, blindly feeling its way out of the debris.

Lynchmob group show, Feb. 8 - 21, HBC, Karl Liebknechtstrasse 9, Berlin-Mitte.