Artist talk with Asta Lynge and Paula Kommoss
18. May 2025, 15:00
Overbeck Pavillon

As part of Asta Lynge’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, a dialogical tour with the artist and the curator invited visitors to explore the interplay between material, power, and meaning.
In CAPACITY, Asta Lynge (1988, Copenhagen) had realized a large-scale, site-specific installation as well as new works that revealed the power structures behind objects commonly associated with comfort, stability, and value. During the conversation between Lynge and Kommoss, subtle fractures and shifts came into view—emerging in the encounter with objects such as a sofa reduced to its bare frame, a guitar that no longer produced sound, and pearls that refused to become jewelry.
Through their dialogue, questions of materiality, processes of making, and societal structures were negotiated. How did perception change when familiar things lost their function? What forms of control and dependency were exposed once the mechanisms of progress became visible?
Lynge and Kommoss guided the audience through an exhibition in which objects existed in a state of suspension—somewhere between construction and dismantling. The tour made tangible how the artist consciously resisted the notion of the completed artwork—not as an act of failure, but as a critical commentary on a system that demands constant productivity.
The conversation revealed how Lynge’s works referred simultaneously to stability and overload—to the coexistence of security and decay. Between the artist and the curator unfolded an open reflection on the relationship between body, labor, structure, and value.