Maximum Headroom Ceal Floyer
September 26, 2018—August 31, 2019
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Maximum Headroom Ceal Floyer

Exhibition view: Maximum Headroom, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), 2018 Photo © Neuer Berliner Kunstverein / Jens Ziehe

Press Release

With the work Maximum Headroom (2014/2018), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein continues its project series on urban space. Ceal Floyer’s intervention on the façade of the n.b.k. consists of a series of individualized traffic signs that designate the area above the large window façade and indicate the exact overhead clearance at the respective upper edges. The work, characterized by formal simplicity and austerity, reduces an everyday circumstance to absurdity by suggesting an alleged risk that does not...
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