Tue Greenfort


TENT, 2007

Christian Science Church Cologne, Albertusstraße 45a, Mon, Wed 4:00 – 7:00 pm, Tue, Thu 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Tue Greenfort’s (*1973) artistic works are often the result of specific ecological, economic, and societal analyses. What starts as research takes aesthetic shape through the information and material he collects on the theme. So Greenfort’s work for “Models for Tomorrow: Colgne” refers 
to the “Tanzbrunnenzelt” created in 1957 for the Bundesgartenschau in Cologne by German architect Frei Otto. It serves as a basis for Greenfort‘s ideas on alternative building methods. “TENT” is a delicate construct of various materials, including photographs of advertising billboard–Greenfort’s subjective mapping of downtown Cologne’s post-public, attention-dependent economy. Despite its formal language, borrowed from archi-tectural models, it is more 
of a plea for flexible architectural structures than an actual miniature of a fictional building. Presented in the reading room 
of the First Church of Christ, 
“TENT” designates a possible point in the coordinate system of vision, knowledge, marketing, missionizing, improvisation, and institution.