Rainer Menke

INSTALLATION

"In der Küche" "In the Kitchen" (2024)

TEMPORARY. Detail des Puppenheims "Ingvars Haus". Detail of the dollhouse "Ingvar's House" Holz, Pappe, Actionmen, Ken etc. Wood, Cardboard etc.

"Terrasse/Wohnzimmer" "Terrace/Living room" (2024)

TEMPORARY. Detail des Puppenheims "Ingvars Haus". Detail of the dollhouse "Ingvar's House" Holz, Pappe, Actionmen, Ken etc. Wood, Cardboard etc.

"Ingvars Room" (2024)

Installation im Badezimmer meines Ateliers anlässlich meines "open studio" im Sept. 24 im Badezimmer meines Ateliers: Pappe, actionmen, Photo, Messer, Teil einer Schaufensterpuppe, Holzkiste von 1945. Installation in the bathroom of my studio on the occasion of my "open studio" on September 24th in the bathroom of my studio: cardboard, actionmen, photo, knife, part of a mannequin, wooden box from 1945 (2024)

"ME" Passport photo from 1983 (2024)

Installation in the bathroom of my studio on the occasion of my "open studio" on September 2024.

Studio Ansicht. Studio View Sept. 24

HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN.

HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN. INSTALLATION 2023 Abschlussarbeit UdK Eine begehbare Box, Foto- und Rumpelkammer. Hier begegnen Harry Harlows Mütter prügelnden Horrorvätern, männlicher Gewalt, Kastration, biografischen Erinnerungen und Assoziationen eines siebzigjährigen schwulen Mannes, Artefakte, Fotos, Zeichnungen. Geisterbahnähnliches Spiel mit Gewalt, Sexualität, Speziesismus.

COUNTDOWN. Detail of Installation: HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN.

Detail der Installation HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN. Abschlussarbeit UdK 2023. Die durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung eines deutschen Mannes = 78,3 Jahre. Ich werde nächstes Jahr siebzig Jahre alt - statistisch habe ich noch ca. 3285 Tage zu leben. Der COUNTDOWN zeigt die verbleibenden Tage, Studen, Minuten, Sekunden.The average life expectancy of a German man = 78.3 years. I'll be seventy next year - statistically I still have about 3285 days to live. The COUNTDOWN shows the remaining days, hours, minutes, seconds.

HASENKLAGE. (RABBIT LAMENT) NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN. (2023)

Entwurf. Draft

HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN.

Innenansicht. Inside view. A walk-in box, photo and lumber room. Here Harry Harlow's mothers encounter beating horror fathers, male violence, castration, biographical memories and associations of a seventy-year-old gay man, artefacts, photos, drawings. Ghost train-like game with violence, sexuality, speciesism.

HasenKlageInnen

HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN.

Details der Installation. Innen. Installation details. Inside.

Aufbau Setup

Aufbau Setup

"Clothmother" and "Wiremother" (2023)

Detail der Installation: HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN.

"Vater" "Father"

Detail der Installation HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN. Abschlussarbeit UdK 2023 Detail of the installation HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN. Final thesis UdK 2023 Animatronic sculpture: screams and moves.

HasenKlageAussen

"THE MOTHERS" (2023)

Clothmother ((l) & Wiremother (r) Skulpturen. Höhe insg.: 200cm, Stelen: 30x30x100cm. Metall, gedrechselte Köpfe, Kunstfell, Plastik-Magnet-Buchstaben, elektr. Grabkerzen, div. "Saugentwöhner" und "Kälbersauger". Clothmother ((l) & Wiremother (l) sculptures. Total height: 200cm, steles: 30x30x100cm. Metal, turned heads, artificial fur, plastic magnet letters, electric grave candles, various "sucking weaners" and "calf teats"

HASENKLAGE. NATURE OF LOVE. COUNTDOWN. (2023)

Die geschlossene Box. Gesamtansicht. The closed box. Overall view.