Errkaa

Erkaa and his team perform existentialist picture hangings in public spaces. Erkaa's large-format, shaped canvasses are the main element of these events. The canvasses are usually in black and white and include fragments of nude drawings. These inevitably seduce us humans – the meaning-seeking machines that we are – into creating stories around them. However, prolonged viewing of the canvasses makes it clear that these stories are nothing but constructs of the human mind. Formal connections between the artworks and the architecture in which they are hung can be detected. The meaning of each picture hanging lies in the viewer beginning to deconstuct the work's supposed subject matter and gradually becoming conscious of what a performative public act really is: a confrontation with a detail – justifiable only in formal terms – of a fragment of an untenable existence. Increasingly, wind, background noises and road traffic are the real protagonists in the contexts chosen by Errkaa.

Quite frequently, the buildings on which Erkaa and his team perform the picture hangings have been earmarked for conversion and are about to undergo massive structural change.

Besides his existentialist picture hangings, Erkaa has also created a number of other temporary installations, as well as the picture hangings against coal extraction; he has also directed the short film “Dada on Vacation” and produced various other series of works.