Barriers and extensions, obstacles and new accesses force the visitors of Reuter’s exhibitions to seek new routes, making the exhibition space, which is normally kept neutral, part of the experience as the result of inclusions and exclusions, free flowing access, lighting, sound, and the partition of exterior space. In this way, Reuter’s interventions reveal the production of space as an active process; they reference actions and understandings that create space in the first place. Occasionally his work is reminiscent of that of the American conceptual artist Michael Asher, whose work material is the encountered situation and the onsite work develops out of the confrontation with the given institutional setting.

The fine arts are for Mandla Reuter first and foremost a means to imagine spaces, to examine spaces, and to set them in new relationship inside and outside. His work is not restricted in this to formal interests but rather considers the effects of actions and the functioning of representative systems, addresses inclusions and exclusions and also, in the process, touches on issues of social-political relevance.

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