Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel, 2012
, Acrylic and dispersion on HDF \ 40 x 40 x 8 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Irena Eden and Stijn Lernout work with geometrical bodies which are taken apart and then reorganised and distorted to create new perspectives. The duo's works are bound to a system of coordinates that also directs the sculptures on their way to occupying three-dimensional space. 

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel, 2010/11
, Acrylic, pencil and dispersion on HDF \ 66,5 x 88 cm
Kollitsch Collection

The artistic activities of Irena Eden and Stijn Lernout are based on explorations of the varying conditions and parameters of space. This exploration of the linear relationships in spatial structures is not only articulated in their drawings and objects, it also serves as an inspiration for their large-scale projects, in which they extend the term "space" to encompass cities and geographical regions. At the same time, space as a mathematical display form is elevated to a place in which experiences and sensations meet.

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel (Diptychon 2009.80.180), 2009
, Acrylic, pencil, dispersion and adhesive tape on HDF \ Diptych \ Each 188 x 91 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Circle Surface Sun 2, 2013
, Pencil, dispersion and acrylic on HDF \ Diptych \ Each 69,5 x 49,5 x 4,5 cm
Courtesy krupic kersting galerie ll kuk, Köln

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel, 2012
, Acrylic on HDF \ 40 x 40 x 8 cm
Courtesy krupic kersting galerie ll kuk, Köln

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel, (Elektro I-IV), I, 2011
, Pencil and felt pen on paper \ Each 47 x 36 cm
Courtesy krupic kersting galerie ll kuk, Köln

Space is portrayed as a showplace of political conditions in the project "Bring Home the Bacon" (2010), source of the drawingsElektro I-IV. The concept is inspired by the guest worker movement at the end of the 1960s and focuses on the topic of earning a living by thematising the deeply significant route between the south-east European countries and the west known as the Autoput. As an analogy to work as a means of earning a living, Irena Eden and Stijn Lernout travelled the Autoput in the opposite direction, from Vienna towards Istanbul. Here they had a bakery bake bread according to various traditional recipes they collected along the way.

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel, (Elektro I-IV), II, 2011
, Pencil and felt pen on paper \ Each 47 x 36 cm
Courtesy krupic kersting galerie ll kuk, Köln

Elektro I-IVreflect the distances covered, the various stopping points and encounters, the experiences and sensations in geometrical form. Axes, levels and perspectives are combined mathematically with the coincidental expansion of the colour areas, which take on the character of watercolours through the use of a wash technique.

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel, (Elektro I-IV), III, 2011
, Pencil and felt pen on paper \ Each 47 x 36 cm
Courtesy krupic kersting galerie ll kuk, Köln

Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Ohne Titel, (Elektro I-IV), IV, 2011
, Pencil and felt pen on paper \ Each 47 x 36 cm
Courtesy krupic kersting galerie ll kuk, Köln