Stapel Stapel Stapeln Stapeln
Publication
“Stapel Stapel Stapeln Stapeln” is a collection of poems collectively written by the Young Valley Soil-collective during our stay at the Bibliothek Andreas Züst in Appenzellerland (CH). Over the course of six weeks, we wove the library’s books into our writing, ranging from reports of alien sightings to artists reflecting on their own practices, alongside impressions of the surrounding landscape, discoveries and encounters. This publication brings together 29 poems, full of cross-references to one another and to the library.
Publication
“Stapel Stapel Stapeln Stapeln” is a collection of poems collectively written by the Young Valley Soil-collective during our stay at the Bibliothek Andreas Züst in Appenzellerland (CH). Over the course of six weeks, we wove the library’s books into our writing, ranging from reports of alien sightings to artists reflecting on their own practices, alongside impressions of the surrounding landscape, discoveries and encounters. This publication brings together 29 poems, full of cross-references to one another and to the library.
Reading at art book fair Ex Libris, 2025
Mares and Night Hags
2-channel video installation
At night, the landscape begins to flicker. Bodies move through the terrain, their contours only becoming visible through the camera. Some lie down, withdrawing from the daily cycle of work and exhaustion. Who stays awake when others are long asleep?
The exhibition by Young Valley Soil presents an installative video work. It was filmed with a night-vision camera in the Swiss regions of Appenzell and Graubünden — among hills, fields, mountains, and forests. When darkness falls and the human eye fails.
2-channel video installation
At night, the landscape begins to flicker. Bodies move through the terrain, their contours only becoming visible through the camera. Some lie down, withdrawing from the daily cycle of work and exhaustion. Who stays awake when others are long asleep?
The exhibition by Young Valley Soil presents an installative video work. It was filmed with a night-vision camera in the Swiss regions of Appenzell and Graubünden — among hills, fields, mountains, and forests. When darkness falls and the human eye fails.
FRISE Künstler*innenhaus, 2025
Hard to Swallow
Collective lecture performance
It starts with a queasy feeling. I see something I don’t have; a place I’m not in; an appearance that isn’t mine. I want it, I need it, envy gnaws at my stomach. I suppress it, don’t let it in, cover it with politeness. It builds up, resentment builds and gnaws at me. How am I supposed to digest all of this?
In the work “Hard to Swallow,” the Young Valley Soil-Collective invited guests to a performative lunch where they dedicated themselves to the manifestations of envy. The work consists of an audio piece for the journey to the performance, three on-site lecture performances, and a four-course menu - each course addressing different stages of envy: bitterness, envy, resentment, and digestion.
Collective lecture performance
It starts with a queasy feeling. I see something I don’t have; a place I’m not in; an appearance that isn’t mine. I want it, I need it, envy gnaws at my stomach. I suppress it, don’t let it in, cover it with politeness. It builds up, resentment builds and gnaws at me. How am I supposed to digest all of this?
In the work “Hard to Swallow,” the Young Valley Soil-Collective invited guests to a performative lunch where they dedicated themselves to the manifestations of envy. The work consists of an audio piece for the journey to the performance, three on-site lecture performances, and a four-course menu - each course addressing different stages of envy: bitterness, envy, resentment, and digestion.
M.1 Arthur Boskamp Stiftung Hohenlockstedt (Photos: Marie-Theres Böhmker)
march hares, cuckoos, nuts
Screen print on textile, bubble wrap, watch chain
200 cm x 150 cm, 30 × 42 cm
Cuckoos, March Hares, Nuts is a textile installation that uses the aesthetic strategies of the Mad Pride movements (screen printing, cut-out techniques) to reflect on forms of representation of "madness" defined by the community itself. In the works, the cuckoo serves as an analogy for the simplifying mechanisms of imagery on madness.
Screen print on textile, bubble wrap, watch chain
200 cm x 150 cm, 30 × 42 cm
Cuckoos, March Hares, Nuts is a textile installation that uses the aesthetic strategies of the Mad Pride movements (screen printing, cut-out techniques) to reflect on forms of representation of "madness" defined by the community itself. In the works, the cuckoo serves as an analogy for the simplifying mechanisms of imagery on madness.
CCA Berlin
Dazeland
2022
two-channel video installation
09:01min, stereo
Link
2022
two-channel video installation
09:01min, stereo
Link
Dazeland is a work that explores water as a means of treatment and control in the history and present of European psychiatry. In the work, the element of water serves as a metaphor for discipline and power but it is also depicted as a space of resolution, transformation, and security – a state of incompleteness. The changing and fleeing water serves as an analogy for the ever-shifting nature of historical narrative: The experiences of silenced positions trespass the surface through the demonstration of stigmas and power structures.
One of the central visual elements of the work is a fountain built in front of the Charité-hospital in Berlin. The fountain is handsome, and represents civilisation, cleanliness, and mastery of nature – values that were also once espoused inside the psychiatric hospital. Simultaneously, water hosts its own ecosystems within the boundaries set by humans.
Video stills 
Frappant Galerie