Verena Bachl (*1985, Wörth a.d. Donau, DE) follows a post-minimalist approach in her sculptures and installations, characterized by a strong conceptual foundation. By employing charged materials, such as marble, silicon, fluorescent tubes, or magnets, she stages matter and its interactions as works of art.
Drawing on industrial elements, Bachl investigates states of suspended function, latent potential, and the transformation of technical structures into geological, spatial, and material conditions. Light, movement, and energy permeate her works, allowing physical phenomena to assume sculptural form.
By recontextualizing functional objects as ambiguous artefacts detached from their original systems, Bachl creates installations that occupy a space between infrastructure and relic. These juxtapositions of minimalist form, technological implementation, and contrasting textures of metal, glass, and stone create atmospheres of latent tension, material instability, and unresolved transformation.
Verena Bachl’s work is represented by BBA Gallery (Berlin, DE)