„For me, you were, along with much else, also like a window through which I could see the streets. I could not do that by myself, for tall though ...“, writes Franz Kafka to his school friend Oskar Pollak shortly after their school leaving exams.
The alley window as a medium for for viewing and insight, and the rope, depending on the context, as a bridge over the abyss, a social bond, or a shackle. The Berlin artist Franz John engages with these motifs in Kafka's work through his piece Das Gassenfenster (The Alley Window) by stretching light wires across the windows of the Goethe-Institute in Prague, illuminating multiple layers of meaning.
Further information: www.goethe.de/tschechien/kafka.
Berlin artist Franz John predominantly explores nature, architecture, and the historical context of a place or region in his work. He has been featured in numerous international solo and group exhibitions, including at the Exploratorium (San Francisco/USA), the São Paulo Biennale (Brazil), the Münsterland Sculpture Biennale (Germany), and Über Lebenskunst at the House of World Cultures (Berlin). In 1996, he was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts near San Francisco. In 2019, he received the annual fellowship from the ZF Art Foundation in Friedrichshafen (Germany). He has taught at the Department of Art – Ohio State University and the School of Art – University of Michigan, among others.
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