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Today, blood, sweat and tears is a synonym for something existential, but the quote originally comes from Winston Churchill’s inaugural speech in 1940 and was made famous by the American band of the same name, founded in 1967.

In the two picture installations designed for the Kabinett Boxes, I deal with the themes of work and responsibility. 

In German, one also says putting one’s heart and soul into one’s work. Many people define themselves by what they do, since modernism there has been the idea of realizing oneself individually, the desire to live out all one’s potential which might be also questionable. I ask myself whether it doesn’t require us to find ourselves and lose ourselves when we get fully involved in an activity, a subject.

Our hands, especially our thumbs, are supposed to distinguish us from animals because we use them as tools and can create or destroy with them.

The first finds of humans are shards of pottery, they are signs of life and the survival of culture. 

Jugert is interested in the contradictions of the soft clay material that is fired into the absolutely hard stone-like object, which is perhaps most clearly illustrated by the image of the sharp axe made of fragile porcelain. The analogy is that an act of desperation is always associated with an emotional fragility.

The annual rings of the tree perhaps bring to mind fire hoses, which often hang in such boxes for safety in an emergency. At the same time, for me they are also an image of our limited lifespan in which we find ourselves in existential situations with varying degrees of frequency and intensity.

The objects are offers or gifts, for me this disk represents a balance between the thought and the possibility.

Artworks:

The porcelain axe is part of a series of sculptures in which I cast my favorite tools in porcelain. Here it is a gift from a deceased sculptor friend from academy times in Dresden. The material shift and shrinkage of the porcelain alienates the forms, makes them look like miniatures and questions their function. 

The inlaid hand sculptures are made of ceramic and the hand axes are made of worked stone

Opening 05 April, 2025

12pm

Wrangelstrasse 44

10997 Berlin