Artists: Marianne Ertl, Dirk Baecker, Nicolaj Kirisits and Kathrin Stumreich /CSUI
2021 – today
In 2021, media artist Kathrin Stumreich founded the platform “The Center of Solar Use Interpretation” and curated “Solar Habitat”, an exhibition and symposium in Lindabrunn. Research led to Heinz von Förster’s Sun Shower, which was described in Dirk Baecker’s obituary in the FAZ and, at Förster’s request, mentioned as his most important invention. Marianne Ertl Heinz (Heinz von Förster Archive) found an original picture of the Sun Shower, photographed by Albert Müller in the late 90s in Heinz von Förster’s garden in Pescadero.
In Solar Habitat, the Sun Shower was restaged as a remake by Stumreich in collaboration with Marianne Ertl and the Heinz von Förster Archive, Dirk Baecker and Nikolaj Kirisits.
The Symposion Lindabrunn took over “Heinz von Förster’s Sun Shower, Remake” as a permanent installation in the symposium grounds.
In the development process from original to remake, the Sun Shower was expanded: Dirk Baecker talks for 3 minutes via QR code about his discovery of the Sun Shower in the company of Heinz von Förster, and lets us participate vividly in this encounter on Rattlesnake Hill in 1990.
