24kt, 2017
A bird’s nest by Thorsten Goldberg for Am Habichtshorst, primary school in Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf
For the start-up and new construction of a primary school Thorsten Goldberg is building a bird’s nest from approximately 1 kg 24 kt gold. The nest will be presented in an exterior wall build-in vacuum showcase. After at least 14 years the artist gives allowance to open the showcase, melt the gold and use the proceeds to help finance yet unknown common purposes. To destroy and dispose the nest, a collaborative process has to be initiated: the creation of a community and shared decision making is stipulated by contract.
24 kt is a symbolic object for the ideas and dreams of the students, it creates a vision and serves as an investment and a foundation for future needs of the new school.
The multi-layered concept work by Thorsten Goldberg is divided into 3 phases:
1. within the time agreed upon – the time ahead is a time of desire and projection
2. when the period has expired, the artwork is exposed and can actually be destroyed anytime – is a time of potentiality
3. the time after – is a time of transformation. The empty showcase with a plate, indicating what has been inside. Something new took the place of the Golden Nest – an object, a collaborative process and a community that was founded.
The Clients are the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment and Council of the Berlin Borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf, in accordance with ReimarHerbst.Architekten BDA, Reimar Herbst and Angelika Kunkler. The project was conceived 2014 and will be realized in 2017.
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