Lorenz Lindner. Volume Cache

In the organizer's words:

Lorenz Lindner is artistically at home in many disciplines and travels the world in the music scene. In the Waidspeicher Gallery of the Kunstmuseen Erfurt, he is staging an expansive installation of painting, sculpture, object and sound that unites his many fields of activity in a site-specific way.

The Leipzig-based artist Lorenz Lindner creates works in the fields of visual arts and music with a fine sense of the inconspicuous and the everyday, of great complexity and subtle humor. His works in the genres of painting, installation, object and sound art have been shown in many parts of Germany and various European countries. As a DJ and sound artist, he travels the world's major cities and is booked for gigs in Chicago, Copenhagen, London, New York and Paris. He has long since made a name for himself in the experimental electronic percussion sound scene. Lindner is now showing an expansive and site-specific installation at the Kunstmuseen Erfurt's Waidspeicher gallery, which consists of various artistic techniques and media.

The term "volume cache" comes from data processing and describes the abstract process of caching files or data blocks on a storage medium. Lorenz Lindner's solo exhibition of the same name is dedicated to the term itself and its components: Volume for storage or storage space or space for depositing - in both the digital and analog sense. And cache for a process of temporary storage, whereby the subsequent reuse remains open. The Erfurt-born artist thus makes a connection to the exhibition venue itself, the historic Waidspeicher.

From 1467, the building was used to store woad, a plant that was primarily used to produce blue for dyeing textiles. Instead of the dyer's woad plant, the artist brings together his typical works of art made from found materials in the rooms that are now used as a gallery for contemporary art: paintings on MDF boards, objects and sculptures made from branches and wood scraps, found wood on and in cardboard boxes from retail and wholesale outlets. In his works, he poses questions about value, the attribution of value, the organization, collection and categorization of objects, whether in the highly technical and standardized area of the market economy or individually in the private sphere.

Sound and installation art play an important role in Lorenz Linder's work. In the course of the exhibition, he therefore refers not only to the original function of the current gallery for contemporary art, but also to its sound. The result is a site-specific sound installation that works with the background noise of the exhibition building, taking it up and alienating it. Lindner thus creates a multifaceted interplay between then and now, raising aspects that are dedicated to cultural techniques and their locations, which have the mission of collecting, preserving and storing, and how they have changed over the centuries.