With the title Overcoming Gravity, Techne Sphere Leipzig will exhibit, from November 9, 2024, original drawings by Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, as well as glass objects and
photographs by German artist Veronika Kellndorfer, which dialogue with Bo Bardi’s work.
The exhibition is being sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin and in partnership with the Lina Bo and P. M. Bardi Institute of São Paulo and the Tchoban Foundation, Museum of Architectural Drawing in Berlin. Forty original drawings by Lina Bo Bardi are on display, highlighting her unique approach and creative process.
The exhibition includes sketches of six of her most iconic works in Brazil: Casa de Vidro, Solar do Unhão, MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Teatro Oficina, SESC Pompeia and Casa do Benin. Bo Bardi’s works reveal her preference for glass and concrete, part of Brazilian architectural modernism.
The drawings, mainly in color, demonstrate her poetic and free vision in creating architecture as total works of art. On the mezzanine of the exhibition space, Veronika Kellndorfer presents silkscreens on reflective glass, the result of her photographic research on Lina Bo Bardi. The large-format pieces are displayed independently in the space, creating overlaps between organic and architectural forms, work and environment, and reflection and transparency.
The exhibition reflects the effect of lightness present in the architecture of Lina Bo Bardi and the works of Veronika Kellndorfer, with an ideal dialogue with Oscar Niemeyer’s Sphere, encouraging the public to explore the lightness of forms in space, architecture, and the visual arts. Lina Bo Bardi’s innovative vision is also reflected in the furniture pieces she designed, which are characterized by elegance and functionality. Three of her iconic chairs—Bolas de Latão, Tripé, and the rocking chair—were reissued with authorization from the Bardi Institute and produced by the Brazilian company ETEL Design, complementing the exhibition.
