WHAT'S ON - Carbon 12
- Art Salon Team
- Apr 28, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 2, 2025
Michael Sailstorfer
Air Electric
15 APR - 23 MAY 2025
AIR ELECTRIC is Michael Sailstorfer’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, bringing together three series of works that explore a subject that couldn’t be more relevant today, and has long been one of the artist’s signature themes: energy.
Sailstorfer reflects on energy in its various forms – as a source, as storage, as a transmitter, as working material – in short, as fuel for life.
The sculptural series C-Batterie, an homage to one of Sailstorfer’s artistic role models, Joseph Beuys, plays with common notions of classical sculpture such as eternity, uniqueness and preconceived values. At first glance, the five bronze casts on white pedestals seem to fulfil these ideas: an eternal, precious material, presented as a unique sculpture on a traditional plinth – a monument to energy. But is this really the case?
About Carbon 12
CARBON 12 was established in 2008, initiating a comprehensive, firmly global, program of institution-grade artists. Internationally active, CARBON 12 continuously introduces and promotes both established and emerging artists to the UAE contemporary art scene, supplementing its 5-6 annual exhibitions with diverse contextual activities including publications and talks that actively engage the public and educational institutions. The playful, organic process that constitutes the creative production of CARBON 12’s artist base is facilitated and mirrored by its location in Al Quoz.
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday, 11:30am – 7pm
Address: Unit 37, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz 1
