Ruth Unger
opening Apr 25, 2026
At the intersection of the body, the object and cultural projection, Ruth Unger’s artistic practice explores processes of perception, the attribution of meaning and social positioning. Her works emerge from a cross-genre, transdisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, sound art and performance. The starting point is reduced, recurring forms – masks, fragments, serial bodies – which function as vessels for attributions, expectations, and personal and collective memories.
Sculpture is understood as a relational site of negotiation where questions of identity and surface, excess and emptiness become visible. The architecture of the human face forms a central space for reflection in her practice. Here, the mask is not understood as a disguise, but as an open, processual system for the collection and analysis of socio-aesthetic codes and for the representation of complex human relationships. In this way, Unger develops modular visual systems that activate and interrogate the presence of the self within a collective structure.