Client: Spar- und Bauverein EG
Location: Paderborn, Germany
Completion date: 2019
Artwork budget: $120,000
Project Team
Industry Resource
Jan Peters
Glasmalerei Peters Studios
Artist
Thierry Boissel
Architect
Carsten Scherhans
RSK Architects
Overview
ShipShape is a new dorm creating modern living space for students directly at the University of Paderborn. Spar und Bauverein EG is a long established housing co-operative in Germany with a high value on Quality.
Goals
Thierry Boissel formed an artwork stretching over three floors of the new building. He photographed students and translated the images into chrome lines on the glass. The mirroring quality creates endless variations and changes with the perspective of the viewer.
Process
The artwork draws vivid scenes of everyday life, in which the boundaries between reality and fiction are increasingly blurred