With the exhibition entitled “Fritz, I like the way you grasp the situation by its balls,” the Berlin Academy of Arts presents 13 interventions that Fritz Balthaus developed for the public areas and gardens on Hanseatenweg.

The works by the contextual artist Fritz Balthaus are both precise experimental setups and ironic interventions into the world of art and art exhibitions. Whether shown in museums, art galleries, galleries, art fairs, baroque castles and gardens or in so-called public contexts, the artworks reflect not only (on) the conditions of their creation but also the environments of their presentation. This results in overlaps of various kinds between the different media of image, sculpture, and architecture.