Out of Site Sat 17. Aug 2002 - Wed 18. Sep 2002 Press Release On August 16th Johann König / Berlin opens the exhibition Out of site by Tue Greenfort. The Danish artist, living in Frankfurt and studying at the Städelschool, explores the process of becoming – in nature as well as in art and their connections. Just recently he built a compost pile in the backyard of the Frankfurt Städelschool. It is just the beginning of a great garden project, he is planning for the art academy. As a side project during last year's Istanbul Biennial the artist constructed an ant-path with the help of a honey-string from the backyard of the exhibition building into the exhibition space. In the same way Greenfort works in his first solo show at Johann König / Berlin, where he, by spatial interventions inside and outside the gallery, points at the place itself – its social structure, it`s natural surrounding and its urban embedding. Upon the branches of the trees at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in front of the Gallery he installs a fotoconstruction, which – mechanically reacting to the weight of the birds, that sit down on the prepared branch – take snapshots of those usually quite unnoted residents of the place. The artist examines the Gallery as a specific space by a model of the gallery room. But through its backside window the viewer doesn`t look into the backyard of the gallery space but into a backyard of a building in Muskauerstraße in Berlin Kreuzberg, where the green is used as a vegetable garden. Thereby Greenfort plays the different ways of using a green against each other – the garden as a social environment on the one hand and the garden as a mere green space on the other.