Ina Weber’s sculptures show familiar objects and buildings that have been lifted out of context, facilitating a new process of perception through her selective representation with altered proportions. Alongside supermarkets, Chinese restaurants and filling stations, we also see in her sculptures sports swimming pools, which in their modified reduction have an astonishing presence, being transformed into “bird baths” and lending a light-hearted note to Ina Weber’s work. The Iron Bird Bath has been specially designed and realised for the Kollitsch collection.

— Magdalena Koschat

During an exhibition of Ina Weber’s work in Shanghai, her attention was drawn to the city’s refuse collectors. She documented her impressions photographically and shortly afterwards took up the subject in greater detail in the watercolours of the Müllsammler Shanghai [Shanghai refuse collectors] series. Characteristically for Ina Weber’s work, her representations of the transport used by China’s refuse collectors create a fascinating effect with their altered, emphasised proportions and scales, allowing us to read entire stories in spite of the complete absence of human beings, from the hard work of collecting rubbish as a basis of human existence to environment management and sustainability in one of the world’s biggest cities and recycling management.

— Magdalena Koschat

Inspired by her environment, her urban surroundings and architecture, Ina Weber collects personal impressions which form the centre of her artistic creation. Her attention is caught by familiar day-to-day objects and buildings which through their immanent presence and profane, functional purpose have become detached from our conscious, selective perception. Taken out of context, as singular phenomena with altered scales, proportions and materials, they are presented in a new connection as compact illusions of reality, providing a new, holistic perception and experience.

— Magdalena Koschat

 Die Skulpturen Ina Webers zeigen ihrem Kontext enthobene, uns vertraute Gegenstände und Gebäude, die durch ihre selektive Darstellung mit veränderten Proportionen einen neuen Prozess der Perzeption ermöglichen. Neben Supermärkten, Chinarestaurants und Tankstellen begegnen uns in ihren Skulpturen auch Sportschwimmbecken, die in ihrer modifizierten Verkleinerung erstaunlich präsent wirken und, transformiert zu „Vogelbädern“, auch einen heiteren Akzent im Werk Ina Webers setzen. Das Iron Bird Bath wurde eigens für die Sammlung Kollitsch konzipiert und realisiert. 

The sculpture of the Minigolf course (Hypo Adria) (2017) is taken from Ina Weber’s ‘Trümmerbahnen’ minigolf course exhibition at the KUNSTHAUS : KOLLITSCH from summer 2017. The 12 holes on the minigolf courses forming part of this playable installation from 2004 refer to the destruction of the city of Braunschweig during the Second World War with their various obstacles, all ruined buildings. An additional hole was commissioned and created especially for the Kollitsch Collection with a regional reference. The artist drew on the architecture of the former Hypo-Alpe-Adria headquarters in Klagenfurt which she presented in a new context in her characteristic concrete sculpted style but with modified dimensions and proportions.

— Magdalena Koschat