Caroline Bayer (born in Stolberg, Rhineland in 1973, lives and works in Berlin) traces clues in her work. In her drawings, objects and installations, she explores the urban space, its patterns and visual structures of order. She takes up architectural fragments – facade elements, floor plans, functional constructions or existing spatial order systems – of the surroundings, analyzes them, reduces them to their basic forms and places them in a new aesthetic context.

The surrounding industrial landscape was also the starting point for the exhibition concept for her solo exhibition at Quartier am Hafen. Caroline Bayer went on an exploratory journey through the harbor area on the right bank of the Rhine and transferred the structures she found into the Q18 exhibition space as an installation. At first glance, the elements of her expansive grid structures shown here looked like Morse codes or scores. The reduced black and white grid modules picked up on the rhythms of the surrounding architecture, freight train routes and industrial wastelands and formed a visual new composition that viewers could read like codes, characters or notations.

With ‘depot’ in the Q18 exhibition space, Caroline Bayer implemented a location- and space-related concept that referred to the surrounding area and its specific character, thus creating a connection between inside and outside.