Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler come to Venice
Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler
On the occasion of the second edition of the Venice Gallery Weekend to be held in Venice over the weekend of March 27–29, 2026, La Galleria Venezia is pleased to invite you to a special aperitif at the gallery. During Saturday, March 28, you can enjoy a glass of wine from 11 am to 6 pm at La Galleria in Calle Calegheri, San Marco 2566. The event is organized by the Venice Gallery View association. The full schedule and program of the event will be published next week, so stay tuned.
On this special occasion the young artist duo Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler from Germany will be present at the gallery and present exciting new works they created recently.
We would be honored to count you among our guests, to experience together an exclusive weekend dedicated to art, culture and innovation.
Down below, we introduce the featured artists and showcase some of their recent projects, so you get an idea what you could possibly expect to see in La Galleria.
Mortal plastic plants slowly succumb to the forces of time and chemistry. The alien vegetation rests within a cylindrical glass vessel filled with caustic soda. In this transitory habitat the flowers’ bodies break down and disapear in the clear liquid.
It takes days or months for an entire bouquet to fully disintegrate, providing only fleeting glimpses of its gradual decay. This chemical degradation process of a plastic called PLA (polylactic acid) reveals the invisible forces at play on a molecular level, challenging the promises of biodegradability and our ambivalent relationship with plastics.
The tangle of colorful, translucent shapes appears like an alien plant. It was assembled from many inter-twined sculptures that were created during theRE:PLACES installation – a robot that transforms granules from recycled plastic into unusual, multi-colored objects. These are made of PLA plastic and have the creation process and thus the knowledge of technical aspects of plastic recycling inscribed in them.
Plastic, a material otherwise associated with cheap, disposable products, reveals its valuable and changeable materiality in the work.
We create enigmatic plastic sculptures in collaboration with quirky robots. Through these and other sculptural and installation-based works, we explore the interweaving of natural and artificial, human and non-human, material and ideology. Our practice unfolds through aesthetic inquiry combined with a research-based approach.
Liebl & Schmid-Pfähler
