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Franz Kotteder, Munich
The name Wolfgang Flatz comes to mind, for example, when you visit the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale. This year it will be performed by Maria Eichhorn. The word “played with” doesn’t quite fit. The artist only uncovered part of the foundations and partially removed the plaster on some walls. In doing so, she refers to the foundations of this Nazi building, essential parts of the German Pavilion unmistakably date from 1938. And involuntarily one wonders how Flatz, whose works repeatedly dealt with the aesthetics of fascism, would have dealt with the Nazi past. He probably would have just blown the thing up. As an artist, too, he is a man of clear statements, and to be honest: It certainly wouldn’t be the worst thing you could do with the building.