Kate Newby: anything, anything
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Kate Newby's site-responsive work addresses the transit zone in front of Museum Brandhorst as a site of permanent change. Like a sculptural drawing in the landscape, her intervention “anything, anything” resists the monumental and the closed—grasping public space as a place of interwoven histories, times, and contradictions.
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About the exhibition
Around 1,000 bricks have been set in the ground in two long lines of over 80 meters along the swath of green between the museum building and the sidewalk of what is known as the “Türkenstraße” (Turks’ Street). Opened in the context of the exhibition “Carrying,” the intervention will remain on view in public space for twelve months—a full cycle of seasons.
Before firing the bricks, Newby worked the material: traces gathered in the urban fabric—drawings, incisions, and patterns pressed into the clay, at times with glass shards that are fused inseparably with the material. Rainwater, debris, and objects carried by the wind collect within the bricks over time—like small pieces of landscape—creating localized artifacts that document transience and the social texture of the place.
This intervention was first created in 2024 for Klosterruine Berlin and takes on a new form in Munich. Running toward Walter De Maria’s “Large Red Sphere” (2002–10) in the “Türkentor” (Turks’ Gate), it resists the monumental and the closed. Embedded in the earth along the “Türkenstraße,” the work recalls canal channels—and points to the never-realized waterway project of the “Türkengraben” (Turks’ Canal) that gave the street its name.
