The installative drawings, as executed by Nic Hess in temporary spaces, combine his own work with the works of other artists in a complex, space-spanning system of lines, surfaces, quotations and image fragments of realistic painting.

From an art-historical perspective, this is an attempt to create a contemporary, stage-like narrative space - "as an interplay of memory space and pictorial narrative, as a narrative space that the viewer can often grasp in its entirety at a glance, as well as 'read' by walking through and in the succession of elements", as Renate Wiehager writes. This automatically leads to an exploratory flight with the eye and repeatedly touches on the dialectical relationship between image and time, because a back and forth is always based on a temporal structure. This elegance of the flâneur-like is subtly enhanced by the concrete integration of so-called icons of classical modernism. Here, almost pop-like citations alternate with the gentle and ironic integration of real works.

This catalogue raisonné, carefully compiled by Christian Ganzenberg together with the artist, presents all of Nic Hess' installations to date and impressively illustrates this extraordinary form of contemporary installation art!