45cbm: Hanna-Maria Hammari

Hanna-Maria Hammari, a graduate of the University of Fine Arts – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, received this year’s Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst from the Foundation for Fruit Painting and Sculpture.

Central to Hanna-Maria Hammaris installation for the studio space 45cbm are several clay sculptures, which in their formal language are reminiscent of surface structures of stripped reptile skins. A balloon fastened to one object and filled with helium seems to float in space forever, but time forces it to the ground. It is a subtile play of growth and finitude that Hammari negotiates with a fine sense of materiality and space in her works.