Ariel Schlesinger (born 1980 in Jerusalem, lives in Berlin) discovers the unnoticed potential in everyday objects. With tinkering enthusiasm, he awakens lifeless matter into independent individualities that fascinate. His works range from interventions created by subtle, sometimes astonishingly simple interventions to room-filling installations with noisy apparatuses.

At the Kunstverein Braunschweig, the room itself became the object. Only seemingly empty, it developed a perceptible density. The empty space was above all immaterially charged. It transported danger, but also allowed a multitude of personal associations, which, according to Schlesinger, are just as justified. The Israeli artist sees his works not only as a reference to his personal political background, but also to the cultural perspective we tend to adopt.

The flames in his works Untitled (empty room Braunschweig) and Untitled (gas loop) played with the flight instincts that fire and gas trigger in the viewer. The latent danger made the viewer wait vigilantly, it caused him to approach the seemingly unpredictable art object with a certain scepticism.

Ariel Schlesinger studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and at the SVA School of Visual Arts, New York from 1996-2000. After participating in a number of group exhibitions, "Catastrophe is Subjective" at the Remise of the Kunstverein was his first institutional solo exhibition.