Tobias Rehberger, home and away and outside

The Golden Lion award at the 2009 Venice Biennale underscores the fact thatTobias Rehberger is one of today s most influential and successful contemporaryartists. Now the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt presents a wide-ranging retrospective.The exhibition features high-profile projects such as the installation NewYork Bar Oppenheimer during Frieze New York 2013, a dizzying black-and-whitesculpture as well as a working caf.. This catalog not only documents the exhibitionbut also includes other featured work. Rehberger makes use of conventionalmaterials from everyday life, thwarting the artificial character imagined by theirform and coloring. He contradicts expectations further when his works functionas objects of day-to-day use, walking the line between functional demandsand the aesthetic directives of fine art. An essay from curator Matthias Ulrichpositions Rehberger s work in historical conceptual art.