Five installations complement the architecture of the IRIS research centre at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Candy Lenk’s ZUGÄNGE open up an ideal, divergent system of paths. The real architecture is linked with spaces of the imagination. The golden objects are thresholds to areas of free, searching movement of thought. The artistic extensions of the architectural space create access to the places of immature ideas, of unpunished failed attempts, of chance encounters, of unimportant details …
The ZUGÄNGE quote architectural components and elements. With their placement in the building, however, they contradict its functional processes and follow their own rules.