With PAIR/UNPAIR, Parrotta Contemporary presents the works of Margret Hoppe and Sebastian Stumpf at Burg Lede in Bonn. Both artists explore, through photography, the architecture of modernism and its relationship to people. At the centre is the question of how the relationship between body, space, built environment, history and memory can be experienced anew.
Hoppe and Stumpf are connected not only by this shared question, but also by their training at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig under Timm Rautert, in whose photography class both were Meisterschüler. Together they have already engaged with eccentric modern architecture in the project Reflective Architecture with: in 2016 with Le Corbusier's Mill Owners' Association in Ahmedabad, India, and in 2022 with the Leipzig Bowlingtreff as postmodern socialist architecture of the 19080s in the GDR. Each project examines how ideologically charged architectural spaces can be reflected through photographic and media interventions.