Cardboard Sculptures

In conversation with space and time

A beige pill-shaped object with a black oval opening in the middle.

Simple abstract shapes in black and beige on a black background.

Chie’s cardboard sculptures embrace time and space through expansive, often 3-dimensional and moving shapes, ambiguous compositions of body parts in various degrees of abstraction.

The works are interactive and created for the particular space they are placed in with the intention of achieving specific forms of interaction in the audience.

PROJECTS

An abstract modern art piece with large black, white, and beige shapes with curved and angled forms.

Sonic

Mirage

Set design for an Afrofuturist
Performance @90mil

A child wearing a colorful headscarf and pink pants with colorful dots, standing in an art studio or workshop, working on cardboard cutouts of animal shapes that are painted or decorated, with a large animal figure on the wall and art supplies on the floor.

Two people sitting on a wooden bench in an indoor space with construction materials. Behind them, a large wall features a metal outline of a running person wearing a face mask. The ceiling has several fluorescent lights and some damaged ceiling tiles.

Sonic Mirage is an multidisciplinary, collective performance and an Afro Futurist Odyssey about cosmic energy and alignment.

Abstract black and white geometric art with circular and curved shapes.

A person in camouflage clothing sitting on a chair in a blue-lit room, holding a guitar. Two microphones are set up in front of them, and a bright light source is behind them. The background appears to have abstract or artistic designs.

A person with their hands raised, wearing a patterned jacket and necklace, appears to be singing or speaking passionately in a room with blue lighting, with other people seated in the background.

A woman with braided hair singing into a microphone while looking at her phone, wearing a shiny jacket, with a colorful abstract wall in the background.

Simple abstract illustration with a large beige wavy shape on a black background.

Wedding

Play

Fight

An interactive space on social connection @GalerieWedding

Two women practicing boxing in a gym, wearing boxing gloves and protective gear, with colorful artwork on the walls and a foam mat on the floor.

People gathered indoors around a speaker, some sitting and some standing, in a bright room with large windows. There is a punching bag in front of the speaker and a large cardboard or fabric decorative piece hanging from the ceiling. The room has colorful foam mats on the floor and boxing gloves and equipment on the walls.

People sitting on a blue and red mat, participating in a discussion or workshop inside a room with a wall poster featuring multiple colorful faces.

Two persons practicing martial arts with gloves and protective gear on a padded training floor, with a large boxing ring visible on a television screen in the background.

Wedding Play Fight is a neighbourhood arena.

A place where you can learn to box, let off energy and just be.

The walls show Wedding martial arts clubs with their trainers and fighters in the form of cardboard figures that move between painting and sculpture.

People training just a few streets away from the exhibition venue watch over you while you try out your first boxing moves on the small mat in the centre of the room, watch a fight or get into a fight with your friends.

Activist

Choreographies

of care

A collaborative carboard, textile and sound installation on queer heritage and survival @ngbk am Alex

Close-up of a cardboard object hanging by a string, with a dark blurred background.

Group of people lying on the floor inside an art gallery, looking up at suspended cardboard sculptures and art pieces hanging from the ceiling.

A colorful mosaic artwork with various shades of blue, green, orange, and black, featuring circular and abstract shapes.

Close-up of a colorful quilt on a wooden surface with sewing tools and fabric pieces scattered around.

The installation Defining Survival (Queer Everexistence in Motion) considers survival as connection across places and times, as leaving traces and spores, as becoming part of a cycle through the combination of Austin Nortey's work with second hand textiles and metal scraps that speaks of the connection of material, time and change, and Chie Marquart-Tabel's semi-figurative, mystical formal language that runs through cardboard sculptures and the quilt, creating objects of connection and care.

By inviting viewers to lie on the quilt, watch the movements of the sculptures and follow the poetic sound installation by Bodi Babatola, the choreographies of care end here with a place that invites you to pause, arrive and rest.

Austin Nortey and Chie Marquart-Tabel use the image of an enduring, creative force that resists the attempts of human and above all white, Western and colonial dominance and regimentation and endures and survives so-called civilisations in all their dissidence and deviousness. Survival, through circularity and circulation, through germination, growth, blossoming, withering, dissolving, resting, germinating.

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Chie's Symbol consisting of a Circle with two lines that are parallel but not intersecting. Chie is a Berlin-based, Black, queer artist working on connection and simultaneity through cardboard and painting.