"Die Stützen" (Combine Drawings) is a drawn intervention in the iconic architecture of the robotron canteen as part of the exhibition "Produktive Unruhe". It consists of a series of drawn columns that reinforce the roof of the robotron canteen at various neuralgic points.
"Die Stützen" is a graphic intervention at various locations on the outside of the building as well as in Hall A and Hall B. The intervention on the building was created as a collective drawing project (Combine Drawing) consisting of stacked individual drawings by a total of 29 artists.
The artist Olav Westphalen invited an open network at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste and artist friends and non-artists to submit drawings in freely selectable formats (but at least A4) that interpret one or more of the motifs he had specified: a fist, a loaf of bread, a potato or a head. The drawings should be black and white (or grey) and each show an isolated object on a blank background.
The motifs, which have already been depicted in a large number of works of art history and in a certain way belong to the classical canon, are timeless motifs that were also to be found with great frequency in the art exhibitions of the GDR. Stacked on top of each other, they are hung like columns or pillars that help to support the roof of the building, which is in dire need of renovation.
"The pillars" were created jointly by Olav Westphalen and Bárbara Castaño Aksyonova, Elif Aktas, Caroline Appelbaum, Fabienne Caprice Arenz, Amadea Blaut, Mia Franziska Böhm, Justyna Chołdzyńska, Paul Decker, Catalina Etzrodt, Kasia Fudakowski, Anisha Gattnar, Luca Griese, Josefine Marie Goebels, Luisa Goethe, Yua Heo, Manuel Kirsch, Matthias Lempart, Linus Lenkeit, Virginia Lorenzetti, Anne Neukamp, Marit Neeb, Hyeonjin Park, Fritz Poppenberg, Ignas Puikis, Sascia Reibel, Xavier Robles de Medina, Sigrid Sandström, Lennart Schunk, Maxwell Stephens, Vasilis Vitolianos signed.