Kara Su
CONCEPTUAL WORK

Concept:
This installation stages a process that was never meant to be completed. Each object carries its own history: the bicycle wheel was scavenged three years ago from a waste container at the UDK (University of the Arts Berlin), and the stool has been by my side for five years. The setup looks like a small construction site, hinting at the creation of a Duchampian ready-made. But the real work is the refusal to complete it. The dialogue between wheel and stool is already historical, so only the intent is staged, not the finished object. The sneaker on the stool acts as a humorous, defiant signature. It gently mocks the pressure to keep reproducing art history and turns a studio inside-joke into a reflection on artistic autonomy.
Visible elements:
– Worn yellow workshop stool.
– Adidas Y-3 sneaker on the stool as a modern signature.
– Vintage bicycle wheel from UDK waste containers, leaning against the stool.
– Hammer and loose nails on the floor, suggesting imminent construction.
– White Boesner paint bucket and studio supplies, marking it as a working space.
– Raw studio floor with paint traces, showing the unfiltered reality of making.
Medium: Mixed media installation
Dimensions: Variable (approx. 65 x 75 x 55 cm), 2026, Berlin
You Don't Have To Reinvent The Wheel

Cause It Feels So Empty Without Me, 720 &
In the Middle Of Ultra
Meisterschüler (Postgrad) Graduation Show, UdK Berlin, 2026
Two-part spatial installation
Dimensions variable
Left: Cause It Feels So Empty Without Me, 720
Oil on canvas (six panels, 145 x 135 cm each), customised red wooden bench
Right: In The Middle Of Ultra
Oil on canvas (145 x 130 cm) on easel, wooden stool, sneaker, paintbrushes, blue gloves, paint, palette, napkin, can, painting, sweater, radio
The six-part installation – six large-scale oil paintings accompanied by a long red bench – stages the moment a work enters the public realm. The bench marks the viewer’s position: someone who sits down, pauses, and opens themselves to the work. The paintings depict fragmented scenes, bodies in motion, and spaces charged with tension. The number 720 refers to all possible permutations of the six panels – a reminder that meaning is never fixed, but emerges through arrangement, context, and gaze. This installation explores reception: the state of being exhibited, of being seen, and the vulnerability of exposing oneself to the world.
„In The Middle Of Ultra“ leads back into the intimacy of the studio. The self-portrait of the artist, palette in hand before the easel and surrounded by stool, radio, cloths, paint pots, and brushes, reveals the actual conditions of making. Here, concentration, doubt, and rhythm prevail. The objects in the room – the radio, the fabrics, the traces on the floor – are not mere props but testimonies of a living process. This installation addresses production: the struggle, the emergence, the often invisible, private foundation of every public work.
Together, the two installations trace a movement between two poles: from inside to outside, from process to presentation, from the sheltered space of the studio to the open stage of public encounter. They reveal that art always exists within this tension — and that its true power arises precisely where creation and reception meet.