Schirin Kretschmann
BING (ROSE)
from November 28, 2025

On the southern terrace of DAS MINSK, artist Schirin Kretschmann presents the temporary work BING (ROSE). Developed across different contexts since 2007, the series BING uses ice and pigment to temporarily mark spaces, allowing what is already inscribed in a site to emerge. A cuboid block made of industrially cut ice blocks is sprayed on site with vivid pink paint. As the ice melts, the paint particles detach and accumulate on the ground. When the ice has fully disappeared, only a fleeting trace of the intervention remains.

Schirin Kretschmann’s artistic methods are process-oriented and grounded in simple, precise gestures that interrogate spatial conventions, traces of use, and patterns of perception. Conceived as temporal processes of transformation and expansion, the material states of her works shift, activating the space. The artist approaches materials as carriers of cultural and functional meaning—always in relation to their surroundings.

The terrace at DAS MINSK, where BING (ROSE) is realized, sits on the Brauhausberg, beneath which historic ice cellars once used to cool beer are preserved. The history of the site resonates with the materiality of the work: as it melts, the sculptural character of BING (ROSE) liquefies—and with it, the work’s formal reference to the site’s architecture. New, ephemeral relationships emerge, for example between color, ground surface, and the building’s materials, as if the melting block of ice were interpreting its surroundings as it disappears.

Hinweis: The duration of the exhibition is dependent on weather conditions.

About Schirin Kretschmann 

Schirin Kretschmann (*1980 in Karlsruhe; lives in Berlin and Munich) works situationally and processually with spaces, revealing their social, material, and visual structures through temporary markings and minimally invasive interventions. Her work employs materials such as leather fat, ice, pigments, or used inventory, each responding to the specific conditions of the site where it is shown. Since 2020, she has been a Professor of Painting and Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Her works are regularly presented in public space as well as in numerous international museum and gallery exhibitions, including PEAC Museum in Freiburg (until February 8, 2026); MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile (2023); Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen (2022); Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (2021); Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2018); Kunstverein Hannover (2017); Museum Vasarely, Budapest (2017); CAPC Coimbra, Portugal (2017); Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein (2016); CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Quito, Ecuador (2016); Kunstverein Salzburg (2015); Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2014); Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (2013); and Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (2012).