Volker Atrops
“Hot Wire my Heart”

Opening:
2026, January 24

Duration:
2026, 1/27 to 2/28


Since the early 1980s, a wire has been running through the work of Volker Atrops—sometimes visibly, sometimes almost in passing, never conclusively. What begins as a line becomes a gesture in space, an assertion of continuity. Even where a wire is seemingly cut to define an individual work, the separation is only momentary: a polite interruption in an ongoing line of thought.

Atrops himself puts it succinctly: as long as he doesn’t collapse, he will continue, from time to time, to make a piece of jewelry out of wire. Be that as it may—and fortunately so.
This exhibition presents a small, carefully selected group of wire works spanning four decades (1985–2025). Some of these are contextualized through images or objects that do not explain them, but rather place them in dialogue. What emerges is a quiet, intelligent network of line, space, and time—taut, humorous, and surprising.