invisible grounds

Riccarda Cappeller
architect. urban designer. author. researcher. curator

DENKSTUBENsite-specific installation | 2022

Cooperation: Marktkirche Halle, cappellerarchitekten

Invited Artists: stiftung freizeit, prjktr, Diana Artus, werkleitz, Anette Haas, Margit Jäschke

Funding: Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt

The program served as a model project and an attempt to collect and try out ideas for a possible activation of the so called “prayer rooms”. Situated on the ground floor of the Market church in Halle / Saale, they are located inbetween the inside of the church and public space. Reinvented as “thiking spaces” to impart knowledge and site-specific content, during this project, they become a place to observe, discuss, provoke, meditate and exhibit.

curation
artistic intervention
concept creation
installation
coordination

FENSTER ZUR STADTsite-specific installation | 2021
Cooperation: Marktkirche Halle, cappellerarchitekten

Invited Artists: Constanze Flamme, Sprechtheater Halle, Musicians (Bastian Duncker, Clemens Oerding, Sebastian Piskorz Thomas Gruss, Tim Pottel, Almuth Schulz, Vinzenz Wieg)

Funding: Beisheim Stiftung

During the conversion and renovation process of the market church in Halle / Saale, multiple artistic formats were developed. The aim was to use construction site art to draw attention to the architectural transformation processes. One part was the activation of the former “prayer rooms”. These approximately 6m2 rooms in the base of the church open to the market square and had been closed for decades. Their opening was celebrated with jazz improvisations.

Other formats of the program were guided tours to explore aspects of the architectural reactivation and new programming, a speech theatre performance, an “audio piece” about the musicians involved in the kick-off event, a photo workshop with confirmands (realized by C. Flamme and R. Cappeller)

explorations building culture
photography workshop
speech theatre
urban learning formats
concept creation
program curation

THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE WRITTEN IN SPACE
installation | 2017

The urban research project was based on the question how to capture the memory of an absent place. Departing from the place of a former music hall in Dalston Junction (London), a neighbourhood characterized by gentrification and rapid change, the memories of people were collected by writing.
They were brought together in order to recreate a collective memory in the form of a newspaper and a podcast.

Over a period of two months, installations were realized at regular intervals in public spaces to encourage exchange and remembrance and to create a small archive of narratives between today, yesterday and tomorrow.

site writing urban research
everydaylife documentation
public interrogation
recording urban memory

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