GREGOR SCHNEIDER — Die Familie Schneider, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, 2014

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, 2014. Original exhibition announcement card, 15 × 10.5 cm. Floral wallpaper motif to recto, exhibition details to verso.

Issued for Gregor Schneider’s solo show Die Familie Schneider, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, 14 November 2014 – 10 January 2015. Opening: Friday 14 November 2014, 18–21 Uhr.

The front is almost disarmingly soft — decorative wallpaper, the title set in script — but that domestic surface is exactly where Schneider’s work tends to become unstable. Die Familie Schneider belongs to the artist’s longer investigation of duplicated rooms, family structures, enclosure, and the psychological charge of ordinary interiors. Schneider’s earlier project of the same title turned two near-identical houses in London into a deeply disorienting encounter, making the family home feel doubled, staged, and faintly threatening.

The card compresses one of Schneider’s key moves into a small printed object: the home as façade, pattern as cover, decoration as unease. A modest Konrad Fischer announcement that carries the full emotional temperature of the work.

Condition: Very good. Light handling wear and minor soft creasing at edges consistent with age and storage. Original period item.